"Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“I think the best advice I would give young artists is to always be working on your craft, because there are so many people out there with a dream similar to yours, a whole lot more than when I started.”
“I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.”

Source : "Going well over the top: the link between Monty and Mikey" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2005.
“Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.”
“The desire to write grows with writing.”
“I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.”
“I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.”
“Writing for chamber ensemble is the thing that excites me the most. So when I went down into the cistern, I didn't know that I was going to make a record based on that time and those improvisations. But as soon as I started playing music down there, I realised that it was going to be something significant for me.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.”

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