"I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment."

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Ashley Bryan

#Piano Quotes #Way Quotes #Environment Quotes

“It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.”
“The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate" votes of suburban, white, middle-class, affluent males. Even liberal voters and organizations tend on some tacit level to accept the idea that they are not the "real" Americans the Democrats must pursue.”

Source : "The Democrats and Left Masochism". "New Politics", Vol. 8, No. 3, issue #31, Summer 2001.
“In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.”
“Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.”
“In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us at the time, because those limitations allowed us to push ourselves as songwriters and gave us a strong sound that people could recognize as ours, like wearing a leather jacket every day. A uniform. They know it's you - and that's great - but my original intention wasn't to be a shoegaze band or to be derivative of one sound.”
“Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.”

Source : Frank Bettger, Norman Vincent Peale (2012). “Inspiring Messages For Daily Living”, p.167, Random House
“An angry lover tells himself many lies.”
“That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity â€“ that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.”

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