"I think anybody who's willing to really sink their teeth into a work like the Hammerklavier, which is a very interesting, different experience, should look instead at something like the Sonata by Paul Dukas, which, in my opinion, is a real marvel."

-- Marc-Andre Hamelin

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“I donâ€™t like the idea of â€œunderstandingâ€ a film. I donâ€™t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasnâ€™t. If you are moved by it, you donâ€™t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.”
“The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.”
“The only cowards are sinners; fighting the fight is all.”
“There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, 'My soul is my own,' and then embody it in her life, her spirituality, and her community is worth the risk and hardship.”
“What you can't pay back you pay forward.”

Source : Jo Walton (2006). “Farthing”, p.165, Macmillan
“This is why Jessica Biel is a successful actress: because, despite the punchlines, you know how to tell a joke.”
“Change is a sheep in wolf's clothing”
“Parents don't particularly care whether it's early infantile autism or whatever label the clinicians have put on it. All they want is treatment, and they want what's best for their child, whatever that is. And when it comes to treatment, it may be that there's much more shared interventions that don't make any difference what label we're putting on it.”

Source : "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part II: D". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 13, 2011.

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