"Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time."

-- Joan Sutherland

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“If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.”
“One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater.”
“You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.”
“Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.”
“Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.”

Source : Malcolm Lowry, Kathleen Dorothy Scherf, Chris Ackerley (1992). “The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry”, p.177, UBC Press
“Don't believe everything you hear, don't believe everything you read and only believe half of what you see”
“Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.”
“By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people.”

Source : "What You Learn in Your 40s". www.nytimes.com. February 28, 2014.

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