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“Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.”

Ends Certain Waiting Successful Pieces Sections Variation

Author:Emanuel Ax

“There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.”

Author:Patrick Carney

“We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.”

World Law Views Clear Doubt Broken Letters Sections Invaluable Administrative Business World Vagueness

Book:The Control of Trusts

Source: The Control of Trusts

“There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.”

Facts Born Attributes Sections Sanguine

Author:Simon Callow

“No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.”

Way Giving Government Opinion Violence India Threat Chaos British Indian Disorder Representatives Sections British Government

Author:Stafford Cripps

“Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?”

World Children Book Animal Feet Hero Cooking Locals Sections Recipes Bookstores Illustration Paradoxical Children's Books Illuminating Cookbook

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.”

Way Stuff Interest Sections Bookstores

Author:Adam Gopnik

“It's very easy to get excited about a job, but it's a big commitment because you do it and then you have to live with it when it's finished. It's forever in your section in the video store. It's you. It's almost like deciding who you have a child with.”

Children Bigs Jobs Easy Forever Commitment Excited Finished Stores Video Sections Easy To Get

Author:Bridget Fonda

“One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.”

“[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section, but also upon the brain behind the eye of the observer. Each of us looks at a section with the accumulated experience of his past study. Hence the veteran cannot make the novice see with his eyes; so that what carries conviction to the one may make no appeal to the other. This fact does not always seem to be sufficiently recognized by geologists at large.”

“Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins.”

People Individual Cities Share Color Racism Developing Sections Nationality Pretext

Author:Jean-Francois Cope

“Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.”

Writing Process Memories Office Research Contemporary Observation Los Angeles Hanging Out Sections Transfers

Author:Michael Connelly

“I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section.”

Want Feels Sometimes Play Kids Today Bits Sound Band Guitar Traditional Strings Punk Embarrassed Sections Grandparent Old Fashioned Orchestra Ungrateful

Author:Jonny Greenwood

“It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.”

Believe Impossible Conditions Europe Italian Chicago Quarters Sections Polish Workshops Tenements

Book:Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.

Source: Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.