"Thereâ€™s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesnâ€™t half impress people and they get a long way on it ... these composers they will get more performances, more commissions, more recognition just by having that disc"

-- Peter Maxwell Davies

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“The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.”
“In Zechariah 14.. their flesh dissolves away, because of the plague hitting them for coming against the Jews in Jerusalem. When did that happen? I've never read when flesh dissolved; it can now, because of necrotizing fasciitis, or the neutron bomb, but not in 70AD.”
“I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.”
“It's interesting vocalizing something that is visual.”
“Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.”
“My father did think I should get interested in television. But I had very little interest in television and it wasn't something I wanted to do. I really never thought about going to work on big feature films in Hollywood. But when we made The Householder, Columbia Pictures bought it. Who would have ever imagined?”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.”
“Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.”

Source : Vicki Baum (1931). “And Life Goes on”

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