"I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee."

-- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

#Frustration Quotes #Play Quotes #Knees Quotes

“Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?”

Source : Amity Gaige (2013). “Schroder”, p.20, Faber & Faber
“When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with and between everyday people. Its discourse may be productive of desire and pleasure, but popular culture is also a language in which people discuss politics, religion, ethics, and action.”

Source : Brenda Laurel (2001). “Utopian Entrepreneur”, p.11, MIT Press
“A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point of time served as a mythologized foil against which to treat the empirical reality of the present.”
“People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.”
“People call us arrogant, but just because we know we are right, it doesn't make us arrogant.”
“The measure ov overexposure is not how many times people see you on TV or in the bookstores. It's whether you can maintain the quality of your entertainment. If you can, people will always be glad to see you.”
“I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity...' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of degradation.”
“Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week because you wont have your rent money, just do it but make sure your rent is all there so youre not stressing about that. As long as you have your rent at least you have somewhere to live.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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