""Light Over Water" is the longest piece I have ever composed. It is a landmark in my personal struggle to create large forms. I feel that it is by and large a formally successful work, though I was constrained to write a piece at least fifty minutes long, and there are some dead spots in the music where I think I was simply marking time. However, I think when the dance is in motion, the formal problem is nonexistent."

-- Lucinda Childs

#Struggle Quotes #Writing Quotes #Successful Quotes

“I suppose in some ways, all over the world "crazy" is a term of abuse and I think that is something that should be stopped. In Ireland "crazy" is a term of abuse and people are terrified of anything that they conceive to be crazy. And the people believed to be crazy won't be treated compassionately, they will treat you horribly and use it as a reason to dismiss anything you would think, do, say or feel, so you're rocking into a self esteem trap.”
“…I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for one’s body; there is also healing for the heart and strength for the soul in nature. One gets very close to God…in these temples of God’s own building.”
“My hair takes a while to get right, I use wax to get it to stand up.”
“Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.”
“I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay warm. I've got to get into shape. I've been eating nothing but fish and chips.”
“When you get a little older, you think, I'd like to make a little money and stick it away or buy a place - or win the world championship.”
“And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.”

Source : May Sinclair (1915). “A Journal of Impressions in Belgium”
“No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.”

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