If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.
When you change showrunners, it's like getting divorced and getting remarried.
While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.
Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.
I always like to think I build in historically accurate musical in-jokes that are so precise that like maybe there's 7 or 8 people in the world watching the show that will sit up and go, "Oh my God the music being played is the right kind of music!"
I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.
I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.
Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.
A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least. " I do not believe this to be a correct description of of the functions of a good government. Government ought to do all the things for which it is needed and for which it is established. Government ought to protect the individuals within the country against the violent and fraudulent attacks of gangsters, and it should defend the country against foreign enemies. These are the functions of government within a free system, within the system of the market economy.
The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.