#ch

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#brahms #concerto #different #each #even

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#core #emotional #his #i #i see

If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#crumble #doing #job #just #limits

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#bach #beethoven #egocentric #end #feels

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#average #child #england #highest #national

In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#american #american families #apart #because #been

I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#cast #characters #going #had #hadn

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#change #creating #division #fear #manipulate

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#administration #assurance #been #given #goals

Shane, in case we don’t … don’t come out of this, I wanted to say…” He glanced over at her, and she felt her whole body warm from it. She remembered that look. It made her feel naked inside and out, but not in a creepy kind of way. In a way that felt…. Free. “If what you say is true, and I guess it has to be, I think I know why we’re … together,” he said. “I think I’d fall for you no matter what, Claire. You’re kind of awesome. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#eve-rosser #funny #ghost-town #humor #michael-glass