"It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?"

-- Miles Davis

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“Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.”
“I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.”
“A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.
“... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement from the edge of the Roman Empire dislodge classical paganism and become the dominant faith of Western civilization? Although this is the only question, it requires many answers - no one thing led to the triumph of Christianity.”

Source : Rodney Stark (1996). “The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History”, p.3, Princeton University Press
“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”
“Restlessness is my nemesis/ It's hard to just chill and sit still”
“I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.”
“Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.”

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