Pieces Quotes
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I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.
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I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.
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Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.
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Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.
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I am in constant search for that project that speaks to me personally. And when all the pieces come together properly, it'll happen.
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People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.
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If Bernard Leach didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to produce the pot that he had designed on paper in front of us.
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On a piece of paper, write down the thing that is stressing you, the obstacle that is in your way. Then put it in a box and just leave it there. At the end of about a week, dispose of it - throw it in the trash or bury it - some sort of ritualistic act of releasing it.
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Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.
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Hearts don't break...They only crack into a thousand little pieces. If they broke it would be better—because then they wouldn't exist.
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I missed the whole thing X-files series. And I know it went for nine seasons, and I think I saw bits and pieces of it in maybe season seven or eight or something, and then was very busy doing whatever else, stand-up comedy and stuff throughout the world. Now I'm watching the show right from the beginning.
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Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
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All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.
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Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea... Piecing these things together gives one a sense of where inventions come from, and that's interesting.
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I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.
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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
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My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
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When James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' turned out to be largely bunk, critics everywhere secretly rejoiced. They knew it, they said.
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The strange and scattered pieces of ourselves we leave behind.
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The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.
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This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.
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When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.
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I kind of have to take pieces of myself to fit what it is that radio wants.
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And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.
