"I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted"

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Pat Metheny

#Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes #Able Quotes

“Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.”

Source : "Q&A: James Wolk on the Brilliant Bob Benson". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2013.
“Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?”
“I only pay to take my son to the movies, because most of the time I only watch European movies, independent movies, or screen them privately. But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.”
“I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me instead.”
“Like contemporary poetry , philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished.”
“It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.”
“Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English.”
“Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.”

Source : Alfred Austin (1894). “The Garden that I Love”

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