“I’d write them up, do like a first draft… then I thought, okay, if I can, I need a nice little sampling in each of these categories.”

Odd Lots · David Byrne Explains How Forgotten Ideas Come Back to Life

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Wrote first drafts of candidate Sleeping Beauties, then categorized them and selected a representative sample from each category for the book

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