I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.
Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.
I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.
There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.
Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be. . . Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.
Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit that it has remarkable characteristics which compel respect and occasionally surprise the most wary players.
Be true to what you want to say, or whatever style it is that you've chosen or genre you've chosen. Do it well! My criteria always has been that the piece must stand the chance of succeeding on the level it's intended to succeed on.
Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal. But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that comes when your heart breaks into pieces. I can't swallow because I have that kind.
A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book.
It's always been kind of weird to me because when you give someone an autograph, you're looking down at a piece of paper and once you sign it the person moves on.
You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board.
Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.
An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece