"Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all."

-- Moshe Safdie

#Art Quotes #Sight Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.”

Source : "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.
“I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.”

Source : "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.
“I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.”
“MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.”

Source : "Laraine Day" by Tom Vallance, www.independent.co.uk. November 13, 2007.
“Free yourself. Live your life. Stop apologizing for who you are.”
“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”

Source : John Banville (2012). “Possessed of a Past: A John Banville Reader”, p.2, Pan Macmillan
“I'm lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I'm also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“History -- its what those bitter old men write.”

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