"I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever."

-- Nigel Kennedy

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“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.”
“There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation.”

Source : Donald Davidson (2001). “Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: Philosophical Essays”, p.208, Clarendon Press
“Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.”
“It's hard to be objective about your own work.”
“Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.”
“I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.”
“If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.”
“There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.”

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