William Bolcom quotes
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“I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that.”
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“Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.”
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“There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.”
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“I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.”
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Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.937, Simon and Schuster
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“Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair”
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“It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself”
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“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”
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