Meredith Monk Quotes

I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

Meredith Monk

• Creating
• Produce
• Empty
• Emptiness

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• I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Children
  • Think

• There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Difficult
  • Nothing
  • Define

• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Live
  • Die
  • Learning

• As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Great
  • Today
  • Game

• I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Vulnerability
  • Fascinated

• I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Up
  • Enough
  • Books

• Wearing modest clothing is a belief, and I'm not going to say that every Muslim woman is in my shoes, but the majority of us do have a choice.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Woman
  • Shoes
  • Choice

• Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • Why
  • Success

• Taxes have been complicated. Every single time I spend a Bitcoin, it's a taxable event. It's like I bought and sold an asset. It counts as an investment, with a short- or long-term capital gain or loss.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Time
  • Long
  • Single

• He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in strange liquid tranquility hung the morning star, and rose, rilling into the dusk of night the first grey of dawn. The street beneath its autumn leaves was vacant, charmed, deserted.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Star

• the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • God
  • Father
  • Writer

• I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to Hollywood to play the bad guys. At some point in American film, I think there was the idea that the British accent had a tone to it that's a little bit naughty.

  

  Alfred Molina
  • American
  • Bad
  • Proud

• Parvati positively beamed. Harry could tell that she was feeling guilty for having laughed at Hermione in Transfiguration. He looked around and saw that Hermione was beaming back, if possible even more brightly. Girls were very strange sometimes.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • She
  • Girl
  • Feeling

• Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers.

  

  Uri Avnery
  • Violence
  • Facts
  • Resistance

• you shall above all things be glad and young For if you're young,whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad whatever's living will yourself become.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Life
  • Young
  • Glad

• Each day I lacerated myself thinking on her, but I didn't go back.

  

  Neal Cassady
  • Thinking
  • Lacerated

• ‎"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?

  

  S. J. Watson
  • Time
  • Want
  • Fear

• I am passionate about reading, for myself and for kids. Our future as a compassionate, productive, healthy society is rooted in our continuing to engage our minds and spirits. The key for me is in keeping it joyful as an activity.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Kids
  • Society
  • Reading

• I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy.

  

  Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Crazy
  • Fighting
  • Persons

• When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

  

  Jean Philippe Rameau
  • Reason
  • Instinct
  • Reconciled

• But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Long
  • Blessed
  • Lucky

• I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

  

  Meredith Monk
  • Creating
  • Produce
  • Empty