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• Note to self: If you can't hear God when you pray, shut up.

  Mark Hart

  Self, Praying, Shut Up

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• There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Gay, Men

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• I always make special notes about evidence that contridicts me: supportive evidence I can remember without trying.

  Charles Darwin

  Supportive, Special, Trying

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• It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

  Donald Miller

  Character, Chinese, Gold

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• It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Kindness, Good Life, Doors

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• And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."

  Christopher Parkening

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Father

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• In spite of all that doctors know, and their studies never end, the best cure of all when spirits fall is a kind note from a friend.

  John Wooden

  Fall, Doctors, Spirit

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)”, p.13, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

  Vernon Howard

  Enjoy Life, Waiting, Finals

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• Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  People, Library, Tiny

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• It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean!

  Thelonious Monk

  Mean, Sound, Different

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• Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Memories, Passion

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.731, GENERAL PRESS

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• President Obama hosted a state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron. The president and the British are getting along a lot better lately. They love to compare notes on ways the Tea Party's always trying to overthrow their rule in America.

  Argus Hamilton

  Party, Always Trying, America

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• Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.

  Beverly Sills

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Drama

  Beverly Sills (1981). “Bubbles: an encore”

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• It's important to prepare audience for the worst in life. People come to forget their problems, and it's my job, right before I leave, to go, "Don't forget: You're going through a divorce and there's a recession." It's always good to end on a pensive note.

  Eugene Mirman

  Jobs, Divorce, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Almost any problem, whether it's telling a family story, or telling a network-quality story, or answering a network note, becomes essentially instantly solvable, because you have a bunch of brains sitting in a room.

  Loren Bouchard

  Brain, Quality, Sitting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do try to plot about a chapter ahead once I get going. I have a list of upcoming scenes with little notes about them. But sometimes the story changes and I don't end up following that.

  Pamela Clare

  Trying, Stories, Littles

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• My advice for other female directors is look for people who really appreciate your vision and are willing to genuinely support you. When it comes time to taking notes on various cuts, if you have a smart producer, listen to her notes!

  Linda Hoaglund

  Smart, Cutting, Support You

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I played the wrong wrong notes.

  Thelonious Monk

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• It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.

  Barbara Steele

  Beautiful, Dark, Italian

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• A few places are especially conducive to inspiration - automobiles, church - public places. I plotted Couples almost entirely in church - little shivers and urgencies I would note down on the program, and carry down to the office Monday.

  John Updike

  Monday, Couple, Inspiration

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• To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Mean, Often Is, Dinner

  Ralph Vaughan Williams (2008). “Vaughan Williams on Music”, p.394, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what note to play, what word to use - in that artist's attempt to share what is in his or her soul. The audience is free to accept or reject those choices; it is emphatically not free to substitute its own.

  Leonard Pitts

  Art, Color, Play

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• You are never more than a half-step away from a right note.

  Victor Wooten

  Half, Steps

  Victor L. Wooten (2008). “The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music”, p.35, Penguin

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• The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.

  Oliver DeMille

  Government, Overcoming, Unemployment

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• I've found, as I'm sure you have, that when you're trying to learn from the Lord and you feel an impression from the Spirit, it's important to make a note so it will not be forgotten. The more you not only hear but abide by what you've been told, the more the Lord will give to you. It will come more and more rapidly and you will begin to hear and feel those impressions of the Spirit more quickly than you have previously done.

  Gene R. Cook

  Giving, Important, Trying

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