"It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're saying. I'm still in a long learning process."

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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

Joan Larkin

#Long Quotes #Vision Quotes #Process Quotes

“An oath is a promise-and a promise can be made regardless of feeling.”
“I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.”
“When I start to think about all the things, I'm doing sometimes I just have to thank the man upstairs. Because I'm doing the morning show here in Chicago 5 days a week, and I have the syndicated radio show that's been going on now for several years. In addition we are in the midst of taping 13 episodes of a television show-The Legends of Jazz: The Masters of jazz on PBS-TV.”
“Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly how they were used; they don't seem to be all that common. Were they horses as we understood them, [or] does the term describe some other animal? Languages don't always and cultures don't always classify things the way we would expect. We have what we call common-sense ways of doing it. They're not common sense; they're just ours. But again, we don't have a strong case there. We're just problem solving there.”
“A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand, I march on in haste through an enemy's land; The road may be rough, but it cannot be long; And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.”

Source : Henry Francis Lyte (1833). “Poems: Chiefly Religious”, p.100
“You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.”

Source : "Gore Vidal on the media". Interview with Paul Jay, therealnews.com. July 11, 2007.
“Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.”
“But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. Thatâ€™s what counts.”

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