"You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that needs desperate repose or pointed inquiry, to the heart that needs invitation to flight or silent understanding, and to the soul that needs safe landing, or fearless, relentless enlightenment."

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Source : Joyce DiDonato's Commencement Address at the Juilliard School in New York City, New York, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2014.

Joyce DiDonato

#Heart Quotes #Eye Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'”

Source : "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.
“There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it... What counts is that the paint should really disappear, otherwise it's craft.”
“I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.”
“There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.”
“With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2009.
“Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“The Bible says that God uses the foolish things and the base things of the world to accomplish His work. He apparently uses the tone deaf of the world to do something too.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.”

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