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When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #comfortable #fiction #four #genre

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#adult #bloody #books #children #complex

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#art form #been #before #creating #flourish

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#beauty #bring #creative #especially #exposed

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#before #blues #called #cotton #done

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#some #synthesizer #tracks

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#arts #band #big #big band #cal

When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#everybody #everything #fact #first #improvise

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#been #category #command #completely #different

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#develop #emergency #environment #extreme #injured