"Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost."

-- Richard Rodney Bennett

#Encouragement Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.”
“You wouldn't run a marathon the day before you run a marathon, you need to leave some sort of surprise for your body.”

Source : "Greg James' Gregathlon for Sport Relief". Interview with Stephanie Soh, in.askmen.com.
“I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.”
“On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.”

Source : "The Touch-Screen Generation". www.theatlantic.com. April 2013.
“When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.”
“To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.”
“it pleaseth me when I see through the meadows The tents and pavilions set up, and great joy have I When I see o'er the campana knights armed and horses arrayed. And it pleaseth me when the scouts set in flight the folk with their goods; And it pleaseth me when I see coming together after them an host of armed men.”
“A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.”

Source : "International Women’s Day Quotes: 16 Inspirational Feminist Quotes for IWD 2017". metro.co.uk. March 06, 2017.

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