"Sadly, today there are only a few remaining speakers of kakadu or gagadju. The work, then, is concerned with my feelings about this place, its landscape, its change of seasons, its dry season and its wet, its cycle of life and death the melodic material in Kakadu, as in much of my recent music, was suggested by the contours and rhythms of Aboriginal chant."

-- Peter Sculthorpe

#Cycle Of Life Quotes #Life And Death Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.”
“A fighter has to know fear.”
“I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.”
“The producer can put something together, package it, oversee it, give input. I'm the kind of producer that likes to take a back seat and let the director run with it. If he needs me, I'm there for him. As a director, I like to have the producer there with me. As a producer, I don't want to be there because I happen to be a director first and foremost, I don't want to "that guy."”
“Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.”
“I find that things don't bother me as much. If I had a bad day on set, it sort of just rolls of my back in a way that it didn't before. So that's where the biggest difference is, stuff that used to get under my skin or that I would worry about or be anxious about just isn't a problem. So in some ways, having a child has been very liberating. I found it very liberating.”
“Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.”
“Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.”

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