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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. ↗

— Peter Frederick Strawson

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I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

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My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#empathy #gift #great #great gift #human

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#first #how #industry #meet #perception

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. ↗

— Meryl Streep

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