#lay

When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down. ↗

— Ruggiero Ricci

#better #down #go #hear #him

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. ↗

— Trent Reznor

#easy #effortlessly #i #learned #me

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing "Hospital". Sometimes I feel like playing "Pablo Picasso". I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it. ↗

— Jonathan Richman

#feel #hospital #i #i do #i feel

I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays. ↗

— Michael Ritchie

#here #i #i do #into #job

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'. ↗

— John Ritter

#company #cure #disease #found #huge

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument? ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#instrument #playing #stand #stick #want

Something changed in my heart. The hardened frost-glittering surface melted just a little to allow my feelings for Callan to blaze bright. I wouldn’t be fighting for revenge or ruthless justice. This time, I’d be fighting for love and connection. ↗

— Jade Hart

#ocean-slays #change

The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found a new understanding in their advice: Writing is rewriting. The rough draft is just that. You can’t polish what you haven’t written. Things that made for a normal life—like a daily routine that followed the sun—took a back seat to times like these, and he exulted in that change because it served as proof that his writing was indeed the most important thing in his life. It wasn’t a conscious choice on his part, like deciding to repaint the bathroom or go buy the groceries, but an overarching reallocation of his existence that was as undeniable as breathing. Day turned into night, breakfast turned into dinner, and the laptop or the writing tablet beckoned even when he was asleep. He would often awake with a new idea—as if he’d merely been on a break and not unconscious—and he would see the empty seat before the desk not as his station in some pointless assembly line, but as the pilot’s seat in a ship that could go anywhere. ↗

— Vincent H. O'Neil

#creativity #directing #inspiration #playwriting #theater

Who snitched?" "We have people monitoring police radio frequencies. They gave Jim a heads-up in case our security had to storm PAD offices and bust you out of there. I found out when I saw Jim walking down the hallway snickering to himself. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #jim #kate #kate-daniels #magic-slays

The sexiest advice: Dear humans, stop role-playing in your lives; these sort of things are meant to be explored only at times you won't mention in public. ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#inspiration #motivation #roleplaying #self-help #wisdom