"Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000."

-- Neville Marriner

#Capacity Quotes #Halls Quotes

“One quick way to destroy a society is through its music.”
“If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”

Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.25, Pan Macmillan
“Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?”
“For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.”

Source : Herman Kahn, William Morle Brown, Léon Martel (1976). “The next 200 years: a scenario for America and the world”, William Morrow & Company
“In any community there's a strong pull home. People want to return, see their community get better economically and socially. You can build those community-grown opportunities for the kids who've graduated from college to return home, to provide businesses and support things going on. It'll only happen through education.”
“I like to push myself beyond the limit every now and again.”
“I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton. And it's always one of the strange discomforts of the job, that you're in this very intense moment in someone's life - you're engaging with them nonstop - and then suddenly your piece is out and that's done. It always reminds me that the journalist's job isn't to be someone's friend, or their psychologist, or anything other than what we actually are. And at the end of the day, that can definitely seem like such a strange, extractive relationship.”
“Well, I never made a record to be in the Christian market. So when I made my record it was to exist in all of the markets. I grew up not really listening to tons of Christian music and if I did it was in the context of all the other music I listened to. So when I made the record I definitely had plans and visions and dreams.”

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