#pieces

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#failed #first #freeze #i #i always

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#chess #described #eating #movement #pieces

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces. ↗

— Cary Elwes

#deliberate #films #lot #period #pieces

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. ↗

— Anatole France

#among #critic #good #his #masterpieces

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic. ↗

— Fred Frith

#candy #context #doing #during #enjoyed

So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best. ↗

— David Frum

#cake #experience #first #found #good

I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces. ↗

— Judith Light

#connected #found #i #mind #pieces

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#bar #bare #break #capacity #chocolate

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#different #doing #down #into #just

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#done #forget #getting #i #i think