"It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views."

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Peter York

#Nice Quotes #Block Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.”
“If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.”
“Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.”
“The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us”
“I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever seen, rattling down the ugliest streets, in the ugliest city, in the ugliest country, in the ugliest of all possible worlds.”

Source : David Thewlis (2011). “The Late Hector Kipling”, p.83, Pan Macmillan
“If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.”
“I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!”

Source : "Katie Cassidy's Most Confident Moments" by Jamie Primeau, www.seventeen.com. February 27, 2013.
“I did two or three plays every summer.”

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