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“It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.”

Beautiful Film Enjoy Sides Dark Interesting Periods Horror Optimism Catholic Notes Italian Sixty Phenomenal Symbolism Horror Film Carnivals Baroque

Author:Barbara Steele

“A few places are especially conducive to inspiration - automobiles, church - public places. I plotted Couples almost entirely in church - little shivers and urgencies I would note down on the program, and carry down to the office Monday.”

Littles Inspiration Church Couple Office Program Notes Monday Automobile Urgency Shiver

Author:John Updike

“To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.”

Mean Enough Notes Dinner Often Is Gongs

Book:Vaughan Williams on Music

Source: Vaughan Williams on Music

“Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what note to play, what word to use - in that artist's attempt to share what is in his or her soul. The audience is free to accept or reject those choices; it is emphatically not free to substitute its own.”

Art Soul Play Use Artist Choices Accepting Audience Share Color Conscious Series Notes Paint Rejects Works Of Art Substitutes

Author:Leonard Pitts

“You are never more than a half-step away from a right note.”

Half Steps Notes

Book:The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

Source: The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

“The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.”

Way Should Government Economy Overcoming Notes Campaigns Best Way Massive Investors Unemployment Small Business Boost Overspending

Author:Oliver DeMille

“I've found, as I'm sure you have, that when you're trying to learn from the Lord and you feel an impression from the Spirit, it's important to make a note so it will not be forgotten. The more you not only hear but abide by what you've been told, the more the Lord will give to you. It will come more and more rapidly and you will begin to hear and feel those impressions of the Spirit more quickly than you have previously done.”

Giving Feels Trying Important Done Spirit Found Lord Notes Forgotten Impression

Author:Gene R. Cook

“Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.”

Way Father Jesus Watches Notes Dominant Faithfulness

Book:The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God

Source: The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God

“It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.”

Names Difficult Class Sky Keys Standards Notes Scales Chiefs Landscape Sentiments Organs

Book:John Constable

Source: John Constable

“Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage.”

“I think the whole of music comes down to one's personality. It's not about the notes or how you press the keys; it's where you are in your evolution of consciousness.”

Thinking Whole Consciousness Keys Personality Evolution Presses Notes Where You Are

Author:Ron Rothfield

“There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.”

Play Teacher Students Notes Hearing Great Teacher

Author:Joshua Bell

“What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of even past wars that are only coming out now. Historians discover letters here, notes there, and look very carefully at different aspects of not only any conflict but any great historical event.”

Knows Looks Doe Different War Past Events Conflict Aspect Letters Historical Notes Historian Coming Out Hindsight Impetus Historical Events Great Historical

Author:Jacqueline Winspear

“It's very meditative to watch Food Network shows. I mean, you might be taking notes, but you're probably not. It's meditative to watch someone cook, just like it is to watch your mother cook, or anyone cook.”

Mean Shows Might Mother Watches Notes Cooks Food Network

Author:Thu Tran

“Love is not a promissory note.”

Love Is Notes

Author:Todd May

“I love constructive criticism. I love getting notes when I'm acting. I love them telling me what to do. I don't always agree with it, but I really need it.”

Needs Acting Criticism Agree Notes Constructive Constructive Criticism

Author:Kumail Nanjiani

“Aggression, occupation and a repetition of the Holocaust won't bring peace. What we want is a sustainable peace. This means that we have to tackle the root of the problem. I am pleased to note that you are honest people and admit that you are obliged to support the Zionists.”

People Want Mean Problem Support Honest Roots Notes Occupation Holocaust Aggression Repetition Obliged Zionist Honest People

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.”

Ends Possibility Notes

Book:The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed

Source: The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed

“If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.”

Ifs Wells Might Sky Notes Mortals If I Could Melody

Book:Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works

Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works

“The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.”

World Way Next Lines Doors Influence Changed Scene Notes Opening New World Realisation

Author:Steven Price

“For the past three years, the CIVIX Student Budget Consultation has helped us to better understand the most pressing national issues for young Canadians. I am delighted to note that on key issues, such as balancing the budget, debt reduction, and lowering taxes, we stand in step with the thousands of students who participated in this initiative from coast to coast to coast. I want to thank the students and teachers for investing their time and energy in this worthwhile initiative. Their enthusiastic participation inspires great hope for Canada's future.”

“Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.”

Feels Fun Lessons Activity Notes Supposed To Be Having Fun Employee Boss Parables

Author:Greg Daniels

“Perfume is a note of woman's individuality. It is the last touch to her look.”

Looks Lasts Notes Individuality Perfume

Author:Christian Dior

“Perhaps it is to prepare to hear some day the music of the spheres that I am always turning my ears to the music of streams. There is indeed a music in streams, but it is not for the hurried. It has to be loitered by and imagined. Or imagined toward, for it is hardly for men at all. Nature has a patient ear. To her the slowest funeral march sounds like a jig. She is satisfied to have the notes drawn out to the lengths of days or weeks or months. Small variations are acceptable to her, modulations as leisurely as the opening of a flower.”

Men Sound Week Flower Months Ears Notes Patient Satisfied Opening Streams Length March Funeral Spheres Acceptable Variation

Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory, after-dinner oratory, diplomatic notes, newspaper editorials, treatises on pedagogics and education, expert financial comment, dissertations on money and credit, accounts of debates, and Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers in general. You would be surprised at the amount of time this saves.”

Source: Tyranny of Words

“I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.”

Writing I Can Play Facts Blessed Notes Musical Backgrounds Academic Improvisation Cursed Knack Hopkins

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“When you finish for the day, write a note reminding yourself of what you plan to do next. This helps you to remember today's great idea when you get back to work tomorrow.”

Writing Ideas Helping Today Remember Next Plans Tomorrow Notes Get Back Great Idea Reminding Back To Work Reminding Yourself

Book:The New Creative Artist

Source: The New Creative Artist

“Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.”

Ifs Men Needs Long Two Hard Reason Jobs Individual Hours Cases Hard Work Notes No Reason Occupation Retirement Vacation Subjective Robbing Long Hours Sideshows Wrong Job

Book:To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Source: To Sail Beyond the Sunset

“There's a lot of violence in Beethoven not explicitly suggested by the notes or in his markings, necessarily. There's just a way that it looks on the page that encourages it to be played in a certain fashion.”

Way Looks Certain Violence Fashion Pages Notes

Author:Nico Muhly

“I suggest that people make an effort to reach out to five people a month. Not just by Facebook or email or Twitter. I'm talking hard-copy note.”

People Hard Effort Talking Five Months Notes Copies Reach Out Email

Author:Dana Perino

“I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his note.”

Said One Thing Husband Notes Very Good Actresses My Husband

Author:Angela Lansbury

“Once you strike a note on the organ, it's going to stay with you until you either make it louder or softer or let it go. So it's a little bit like the human voice, so you can put a human characteristic in it.”

Humans Littles Bits Voice Little Bit Notes Strikes Characteristics Organs Let It Go Human Voice

Author:Booker T. Jones

“I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.”

Giving Found Talking Notes Phones Driving Smoking Cigar Talking On The Phone

Author:Gene Weingarten

“Ethics are more important than laws. Which means that the exact note is less important than the feeling of the note.”

Mean Important Feelings Law Ethics Notes

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I've been poked fun of throughout my career by fellow actors for my notes that I take. I have spiral notebooks that I carry with me on every project I do, and I take notes just so that if I have to relive a scene, if I have to go back, I know what I did.”

Ifs Knows Actors Fun Careers Scene Projects Fellows Notes Notebook Spirals

Author:Anna Chlumsky

“Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, "It was an American statesman who inspired me and taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ." Winston then to my amazement started to quote long excerpts from Bourke Cockran's speeches of 60 years before. "He was my model," Churchill said. "I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall."”

Years Humans Long Said Use Lasts Voice Style Taught Speech Models Meetings Notes Inspired Organs Speakers Notable Statesmen Amazement Human Voice

Author:William Bourke Cockran

“Every political card played by Jeb Bush has been Trumped; every political note played by The Donald has been Trumpeted.”

Has Beens Political Notes Cards

Author:Michael R. Burch

“Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?”

May Shows Fairs Notes Passing Passings Show Me Mistress Her Beauty

Book:Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Don't let your hands dictate what you think you can do. Look at fingerboard charts and imagine your eyes dancing on the notes you want to play, and forget about whether your hands can do it or not. Just try it.”

Thinking Want Trying Looks Play Hands Eye Can Do Forget Imagine Dancing Notes Fingerboard

Author:Allan Holdsworth

“Do we want to know whether Christ was resurrected on Easter? God provides the grace to believe in that, but note: Such belief requires less faith in things unseen than believing that the world as we know it evolved out of nothing.”

Knows World Want Believe Belief Christ Grace Notes Unseen Easter God Provides

Author:Marvin Olasky

“If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.”

Ifs Want Play Mistake Notes Want Me You Want Me Dynamics One Mistake If You Want Me

Author:Vladimir Horowitz

“I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.”

Ifs Want Life Play Success Mistake Clear Risk Terrible Notes Dare Want Me You Want Me Dynamics One Mistake If You Want Me

Author:Vladimir Horowitz

“It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many melodies fly about, one must be careful not to tread on them.”

Hard Fall Tables Notes Careful Melody Be Careful Superfluous

Author:Johannes Brahms

“The only notes that matter come in a wad”

Matter Notes

Author:John Lydon

“We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But this sorrow and rage will not inflame us to seek retribution; rather they will inflame our art. Our music will never again be quite the same. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. And with each note we will honor the spirit of John Kennedy, commemorate his courage, and reaffirm his faith in the Triumph of the Mind.”

Mind Art Spirit Violence Crime Honor Sorrow Musician Murder Notes Rage Triumph Numb Retribution John Kennedy Senselessness

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“Evaluation and coaching get tangled together. When this occurs, the noise of evaluation drowns out coaching efforts. Think of this like a term paper. When you get your assignment grade back (evaluation) you tend to tune out the professor notes in the margins (coaching) if the grade is higher or lower than expected.”

Ifs Thinking Together Term Effort Higher Paper Notes Expected Noise Coaching Grades Tunes Professors Margins Assignments Tangled Evaluation Term Paper

Author:Sheila Heen

“Lee Morgan used to stand behind me when I was playing a ballad and he'd be hollering, "Play the pretty notes, man, play the pretty notes." I thought I was playing the pretty notes, but you know, things like that help you to reach a little further.”

Knows Men Littles Play Helping Used Behinds Notes Ballads

Author:Gary Bartz

“Playing inside the changes means playing enough of the important notes of the chord progression at important times. A good solo might be very free, but every once in a while it loops or hooks into an essential note that describes the harmonic change.”

Mean Important Enough Might Essentials Notes Solo Hook Chords Progression Loops

Author:Chuck Israels

“The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note; often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce.”

Romance Streets Notes Divorce Phrases Parks Chords Avenues Right Words Shotguns Lyricists

Author:Yip Harburg

“From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch. Fire answers fire, and through their play flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.”

Giving War Play Faces Night Sound Answers Secret Watches Fire Battle Ears Army Notes Busy Preparation Flames Fixed Dull Camps Womb Hammers Closing Knights Foul Tents Piercings Sentinels

Author:William Shakespeare

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