#met

Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea. ↗

— John Zorn

#calls #choice #go #got #gotta

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless. ↗

— Robert Caro

#did #endures #feel #gee #i

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage. ↗

— Robert Caro

#ballet #beautiful #beautiful thing #concentrating #during

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way. ↗

— John Zorn

#get #gets #i #i feel #i feel like

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no. ↗

— Jose Carreras

#courage #doing #even #everybody #had

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

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#backgrounds #because #behavior #careful #come

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. ↗

— John le Carre

#confidence #greatest #her #history #i

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. ↗

— Emily Carr

#fact #mood #something #spirit #stands

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar. ↗

— Keith Carradine

#familiar #genre #i #something #western