"Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away."

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Source : “Readers recommend: best brass songs” by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2014.

Thomas Beecham

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“Before you meet the love of your life, there's usually one guy you date that you try to convince yourself is him. Let me save you some time: He's not.”

Source : Jenny Mollen (2014). “I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People”, p.51, St. Martin's Press
“Some men are willing to die for their faith but will not fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us. By walking in his steps and through his atonement we can gain the greatest gift of all--eternal life--which is that kind of life of the great Eternal One, our Father in heaven.”
“What you work hardest at, you love the most.”
“I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too”
“I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.”
“This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.”
“Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.”
“Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.”

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