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Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.


Meredith Monk


#around #carrying #everything #get #going

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.


Vladimir Nabokov


#completely #nothing #once #past #smell

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.


Roger Moore


#been #business #business people #couple #had

Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.


Henry M. Morris


#creation #far #in the past #inaccessible #method

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.


Richard Morris


#director #door #education #first #hire

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.


Alex Morrison


#area #army #being #canada #departure

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.


Grandma Moses


#brain #day #forward #history #hope

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.


Andy Summers


#forward #goes #hard #past

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.


Lewis Mumford


#future #optimists #past #pessimists #traditionalists

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.


Vladimir Nabokov


#after #artificial #away #bestowed #characters






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