"Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me."

-- Brian Ferneyhough

#Practice Quotes #Should Quotes #Be Careful Quotes

“Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.”
“Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.”
“I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.”
“I think there's an audience for The Wombles at almost all levels. We thought it was going to be confined to people in their late twenties, early thirties, who remembered it from before - they were maybe 10 or 12 in the Seventies when it was happening.”

Source : Press launch of The Wombles Collection, www.tidybag.uk. November 2000.
“I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.”
“A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.402, A&C Black
“Once I started singing, I realized it was a language I'd forgotten I could speak.”

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