#thing

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#composer #first #four #i #i remember

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#basic #bathing #been #being #childhood

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#finish #impossible #more #picture #terrible

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#copied #drawing #everything #fifty #i

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#closer #differently #get #i #i see

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#defeat #either #happens #something #you

The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to come in and play, say, the bartender for a day - that's a lot harder than playing the lead role. You have to pop in and get it right. It's a lot of pressure to just pop in there and fit in and find your footing really fast. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#come #day #fast #find #fit

When you promise something, you must fulfill it. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#must #promise #something #you

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#another #because #course #experience #getting

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. ↗

— Walt Disney

#cartoonist #check #contract #days #i