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The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be. ↗

— Jack Brymer

#clarinet #imperfections #instrument #never #overcome

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#buy #carry #children #consumerism #first

Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money. ↗

— James Buchan

#back #because #boom #borrowing #came

I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct. ↗

— Larry Buchanan

#direct #director #early #even #gates

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#great #like #must #over #pain

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#course #heap #his #leader #lets

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#hugely #i #loud #purpose #relieved

Our stories are different; our pain is the same. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#our #pain #same #stories

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#becomes #believes #either #mind #true

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for. ↗

— Harold Budd

#certain #directions #down #go #i