"I've been really opinionated my whole life. I was raised to be opinionated. I was raised to debate at the dinner table - my father demanded it - and you had to be able to debate in a confident and clear way."

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Source : "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

Jeanine Tesori

#Father Quotes #Tables Quotes #Dinner Quotes

“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!”
“It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent.”
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo..”
“Clouds suit my mood just fine.”

Source : Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.156, Penguin
“Sometimes the most powerful way to teach our children to understand a doctrine is to teach in the context of what they are experiencing right at that moment. These moments are spontaneous and unplanned and happen in the normal flow of family life. They come and go quickly, so we need to be alert and recognize a teaching moment when our children come to us with a question or a worry.”
“The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.”
“It is a blessing. When I first got wind of [Chris Rivers] taking the rap thing serious and wanting to make a career out of it.”
“The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy, nor beds nor jobs nor laughs nor friends nor smiles nor money nor clean air to breathe...and yet the music goes on.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.37, Spiegel & Grau

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