"Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists."

-- Lara St. John

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“All of my films I've made have had an element of physicality and action but I really enjoy the drama of it because it's where I feel I'm really doing something.”
“â€ŽBe careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.”
“Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.”

Source : Graham Joyce (2011). “The Silent Land: A novel”, p.169, Anchor
“The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.”
“You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.”
“To use the past to justify the present is bad enoughâ€”but itâ€™s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.”

Source : Amitav Ghosh (2001). “The Glass Palace: A Novel”, p.468, Random House
“Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled up that you can't tell which is which until you've shot 'em both, and then it's too late.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.180, Simon and Schuster
“Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”

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