"Limitation is the condition of our lives. What matters â€” what allows us to reach beyond ourselves, as we are, and push at the boundaries of our ability â€” is that we continue. But then everything depends on how we practice, what we practice."

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Source : Glenn Kurtz (2008). “Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music”, p.241, Vintage

Glenn Kurtz

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“Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.”
“Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.”
“When you find things that are tried and true for millennia, you can bet that it's going to happen tomorrow.”
“Remember that other people are as real as you.Other people's feelings are as real as yours.In fact, our feelings are what make us real.”
“Growning up I felt incredibly guilty anout my fantasies and the things I wanted sexually. I was like: "Why do I feel this way? I don't understand it, but nobody's going to talk to me about it because we're not allowed to talk about that..."”

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“And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”
“And you get into that sort of cannibalistic feeling - all you want to do is go out there and, like I say, kill somebody. I'm going to get him. I'm going to kill'em. Not like you are going to put them into the ground after, but you just want to kill a guy.”
“What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.”

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