"When you've only got few days of rehearsal before you're in the studio, it's wonderful to start off with people that you have good, friendly, tolerable relationships to start with, for the simple reason that you don't have to spend 24 hours figuring out how sensitive they are, and can you give them a line reading, or how do you have to give them direction."

-- John Cleese

#Reading Quotes #Good Friend Quotes #Simple Quotes

“I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”
“If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated learning - If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.”
“Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing, had never appeared to an Asbury Park summer crowd, and the latter was vaguely amused.”
“I always try to overachieve. I feel I have something to prove every day.”
“I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.”
“Repealing drug laws would remove the risks involved with producing and distributing drugs, bringing 'street prices' crashing down (it's estimated that a 'spoon' of ***** would cost about a quarter in the free market), thereby eradicating any incentive that criminals might have to compete with legitimate businesses, and greatly reducing if not eliminating altogether any economic reason to ' push ' drugs on children.”
“I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist.”
“Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas resistance to sexual orientation, regimentation is more about where we need to be going.”

Source : John Stoltenberg (2005). “Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Social Justice”, p.92, Routledge

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