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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#about #blooming #dreaming #enjoying #garden

I finish what I have to do in the office. ↗

— Robert Caro

#i #office

That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about. ↗

— John Zorn

#aware #certainly #city #different #different things

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to. ↗

— Robert Caro

#generally #hours #i #i quit #late

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #curtain #doors #down #go

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#biographies #called #find #got #hate

Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now. ↗

— John Zorn

#city #concentrate #got #group #hardcore

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. ↗

— Ovid

#always #cast #everything #expect #fish

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#died #different #dreams #father #i

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial. ↗

— Allan Carr

#audience #crucial #first #go #lose