#piece

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#appealed #criminal #fun #i #just

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#against #allow #because #bit #commend

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#closing #critical #doing #gap #how

I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#brain #comfortable #i #knew #make

It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling. ↗

— David Strathairn

#builds #chord #compelling #each #hear

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#end #finish #long #many #music

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#come #death #exist #grown #her

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. ↗

— August Strindberg

#complicated #extremely #life #man #mechanism

I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#admit #board #doing #february #fuzz

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#operas #pieces #theatre #very #works