"I have tremendous respect for film composers."

-- John Corigliano

#Film Quotes #Composer Quotes

“When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.”
“I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.”
“[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you?”
“I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “I, Mary MacLane: A Diary of Human Days”, p.20, The Floating Press
“We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that realityâ€”judiciously, as you willâ€”we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

Source : "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush". Interview with Ron Suskind, www.nytimes.com. October 17, 2004.
“When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.”

Source : "Jolly good Fellowes". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2004.
“And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would start like this: "O rainbow-colored gods. . .”
“Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.”

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