""True expertise is the most potent form of authority.""

-- Victoria Bond

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“I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.”
“If I don't do this film. I'll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.”
“Forest deep, silent bells There's a secret no one tells Valley quiet, water still Lynburns watching on the hill Apples red, corn gold Almost everyone grows old”
“My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music.”

Source : Letter to Lyudmila Shestakova on July 30, 1868. "The Musorgsky Reader: A Life of Modeste Petrovich Musorgsky in Letters and Documents", p. 113, 1947.
“Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?”
“Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.”
“It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.”
“... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.”

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