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“I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.”
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“Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.”
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“Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.”
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“If you're emotional and you're great at something, the money will follow.”
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“Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.”
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“Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.”
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“I rarely use the Internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes, the lack of direct human discourse, all in an atmosphere of scam and hustle.”
Source : "Close Range: Wyoming Stories". Book by Annie Proulx, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 1999.
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“I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.”
Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.34, Macmillan