#s

I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#also #charles #college #ever #fairly

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#changed #completely #contemporary #contemporary music #depression

When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#end #explore #had #hello #i

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#feel #hollywood #like #little #neat

You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#another #energy #felt #i #interesting

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. ↗

— James Fenton

#back #herself #lullaby #mother #ogre

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done. ↗

— James Fenton

#done #fine #fine thing #forgery #generous

One does not become a guru by accident. ↗

— James Fenton

#become #does #guru

I'm a very good sleeper. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#i #sleeper #very

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#being #cease #death #delightful #drowning