"Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love."

--

Hildegard Knef

#Idols Quotes #Trying Quotes #Mistaken Quotes

“I don't compose. I assemble materials.”

Source : "Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man". Book by Howard Pollack, 1999.
“You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come -- requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it.”

Source : Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet?”
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
“Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.”
“Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.”
“We're going to step on the field knowing that every team we're going against is going to push their game to that whole new level that we probably hadn't seen. ... We've just got to be ready to step up with them”
“Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.”

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