"I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion."

-- Peter Maxwell Davies

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“Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.”
“I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.”
“It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.”
“True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?”
“Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.”
“If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?”
“People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.”
“One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.”

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