"To lose your temper is only useful once a year."

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Source : "Calm after the storm" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2002.

Colin Davis

#Years Quotes #Temper Quotes

“If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?”
“The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.”
“A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'”

Source : "Joel Meyerowitz: 'brilliant mistakes ... amazing accidents'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2012.
“Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.”
“I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!”
“If you don't have a flag sticking out of your ass, you must be a communist.”
“My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.”

Source : Interview with Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. November 23, 2010.
“The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.”

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