"The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Jack Brymer

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“The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”

Source : Harvard Commencement remarks, news.harvard.edu. May 26, 2011.
“I remember when we did our first read-through, Sonny [Bono] looks at the script and he goes, 'Okay, I'll see you guys later. Chai-ay-oh!' And I said, 'It's ciao! Aren't you Italian? C-i-a-o doesn't spell chai-ay-oh.' [Laughs.] Sonny's dead, so he won't be embarrassed if I tell that story.”

Source : Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2008.
“The perspective is more important than the perception”
“I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.”
“You were a terrible baby, do you know that? Bawling all the time, never sleeping. And one night you just wouldn't shut up, screaming like a dying pig. I walked over to your crib, I looked down at you. I wanted to strangle you. And you looked up at me and you stopped screaming. You smiled at me. Don't die so far from the sea.”
“If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.”

Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.272
“A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.”
“Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.”

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