"My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was."

-- Nat Hentoff

#Parent Quotes #Bars Quotes #My Family Quotes

“Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way--through the senses, theoretically, technically. I would talk to Monk about musical problems, and he would sit at the piano and show me the answers just by playing them. I could watch him play and find out the things I wanted to know. Also, I could see a lot of things that I didn't know about at all.”
“The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.”
“Never explain, never complain.”
“Improving your life doesnâ€™t have to be about changing everything â€“ itâ€™s about making changes that count.”
“Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.”

Source : Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.347, Penguin
“My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.”
“That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.”
“The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.”

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