"...I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus."

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Source : James Galway (1979). “James Galway”

James Galway

#Blow Quotes #Octopus Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.”
“I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the office - and I went traveling.”
“If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.”
“I love spending time with my dog, my niece and my family. I'm very family-oriented.”
“One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now seen, and which are widely regarded as unappealing. They'll write, "It's going to be beautiful, we're going to have a town of 1,000 stone buildings that are all identical." And we as modern readers think, we've seen that; that's bad Soviet architecture or a public housing project. Nobody fantasizes about living there.”
“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
“The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.”
“I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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