
Top 18 Quotes About The Piano Lesson
#1. 'The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.
Jane Campion
#2. The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
Patricia Clarkson
#3. The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
Eddie Van Halen
#4. We both speak Dutch and English. But we never could speak the same language.
Gayle Forman
#5. I never actually had a guitar lesson. I taught myself the guitar from piano exercise books, which led me to have a pretty good technique on the guitar and allowed me to find different ways to do things.
Trevor Rabin
#6. So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'.
Emma Goldman
#7. . . . when a woman has a husband
And you've got none,
Why should she take advice from you?
Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare
And all them other highfalutin' Greeks.
Meredith Willson
#8. I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
Adam McKay
#9. We have the responsibility to put our gifts to work.
Les Brown
#10. Mother of mercy,"said Tovar."And that caused the riot?"
"It's the other way around,"said Kira sheepishly."We started the riot as a distraction for the jaibreak."
Tovar whistled."You don't mess aroud."
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Dan Wells
#11. If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind.
Aleksandar Hemon
#12. I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the right first sentence, it leads to the right second sentence and three years later you have a 500-page manuscript, but it really is like going on a trip, going on a journey. It's a voyage.
Tom Robbins
#14. I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun.
Kelly Bishop
#15. My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
Kamala Harris
#16. There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.
Gerard Way
#17. Are you saying you want to be my girlfriend?" His voice was gruff, almost teasing.
I leaned into him and whispered against his lips. "Are you saying you want me to be your girlfriend?"
"Fuck yeah," he whispered back, and pressed his mouth to mine.
Samantha Young
#18. Girls Scouts taught me to succeed (cookie selling) and to fail (knot tying) and to learn and benefit from both.
Carol Bellamy
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