What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not… your taste is why your work disappoints you… We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this… It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.
I've been writing plays since the third grade. The biggest difference now is that professionals act in them rather than eight year olds. . . and the language is a bit more "colorful".
Every year it changes, sometimes I'm good at the 50m, sometimes I'm terrible, it really depends. I'm still not sure what my best event is.
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.
I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
We now have in our hands—really, in our libraries—the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion years.
This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops
Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable. . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.
Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.
After 48 years, I have said nothing.
We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?
My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.
Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.
Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.
If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.
