"When you play the oboe, the flute or other wind instruments, there is something between you and the breath; there is the embouchure, the reed, etc. But with the recorder, I receive an immediate response from the instrument. This is something that attracted me to the instrument, that I could immediately feel the response of what I was doing."

-- Michala Petri

#Wind Quotes #Play Quotes #Oboes Quotes

“A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.”
“If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.”
“When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.”

Source : "Switched at Birth: Q&A with Switched at Birth's Vanessa Marano". ABC Spark Interview, www.abcspark.ca. February 29, 2012.
“Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice...”
“God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.”
“We can beat anyone on our day - so long as we score.”
“Public service is my motto.”
“I like the idea that the sacred photo framing process is equally violatible and I think that's partly a carryover from the way I deal with structures to the way I deal with photography.”

Source : Stephen Walker, Gordon Matta-Clark (2009). “Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism”, I B Tauris & Company Limited

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