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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space. ↗

— Iris Chang

#i do #i love #love #mind #need

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#perfume #wear #who #women

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#another #assemblage #construction #during #especially

Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing. ↗

— Theresa May

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The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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