"After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, â€˜In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony.â€™ Â I explained to him that I had no feeling for harmony. Â He then said that I would always encounter an obstacle, that it would be as though I came to a wall through which I could not pass. Â I said, â€˜In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.â€™"

-- John Cage

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“Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.”
“Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.”
“I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.”
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
“We have made major reforms in Greece. When I took over after a landslide victory we had a mandate for change and I knew my major focus would be re-organizing the state.”
“Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.”
“I listen to old songs and remember exactly where I was living and where I recorded it and how I wrote it, the girl I was dating at the time or whatever.”

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“We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound ways: the unexpected phone call, the brief touch, the willingness to listen generously, the warm smile or wink of recognition. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.”

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