"A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!"

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Source : George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.287, Booklassic

George du Maurier

#Good Day Quotes #Play Quotes #Littles Quotes

“To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.”
“I feel like the ideal length is three months. I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.”
“I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else.”

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“World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.”
“I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing,”
“The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher frequencies.”

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“Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in Wolff and Baumgarten was always double-edged. He did see them as pseudo-sciences but also valued their doctrinal value and especially their regulative value for the empirical sciences. Like his views about religion, I don't think any of this is any longer viable in its original form.”
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.”

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