"I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition."

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Source : "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.

Richard Meale

#Self Quotes #Taught Quotes #Study Quotes

“Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.”
“A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.”
“Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.”
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

Source : Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive
“In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.”
“You're never gonna outwrite the movement of the white clouds and the blue sky. You're never going to. There are times when I try to write beautifully, but I don't know if I'm trying to exorcise my own demons. If I am, there are other ones lurking beneath, because they keep coming out. Maybe little by little I'm fumigating.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Kirk Cousins has played much better at the quarterback position than Robert Griffin III has,”

Source : "Joe Theismann: Kirk Cousins has outplayed RGIII" By Dan Steinberg, www.washingtonpost.com. August 23, 2014.
“Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.”

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