"How can you tell when a piece is finished?'I asked. 'You can't,' he said flatly. 'All you can tell is when you can't do any more to it. And then you need to stop because if you don't, you will spoil it."

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Source : Mary Hoffman (2011). “David”, p.201, Bloomsbury Publishing

Mary Hoffman

#Needs Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Said Quotes

“My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.”
“When WHO works with the private sector, the Organization takes all possible measures to ensure its work to develop policy and guidelines is protected from industry influence.”
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
“Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.”
“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
“A game is not won until it is lost.”
“Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.”
“I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.”

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