The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process. I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ~Beth Gibbons
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up on my own." "Was there anyone with you? ~Cassandra Clare
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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