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• From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Compass, Harmony

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• The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

  Glenn Gould

  Past, Planes, Horizontal

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• The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round.

  Eric Maisel

  Dream, Country, Beach

  Eric Maisel (2010). “A Writer's San Francisco: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul”, p.7, New World Library

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• What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Heart, Doe, Body

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• I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Home, Play, Matter

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• I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of knowledge. My favorite of the day came from a large but shapely woman sitting nearby whom I learned was the owner of a local lingerie shop. 'Beh oui,' she said to her companion, waving her spoon for emphasis, 'il faut du temps pour la corsetterie.' You can't argue with that. I made a mental note not to rush things next time I was shopping for a corset, and leaned back to allow the waiter through with the next course.

  Peter Mayle

  Shopping, People, Sitting

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Nov 26, 2011

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• My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me and gave me good notes. But the best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

  Anthony

  Writing, Boss, Best Experiences

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• True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Lying, Form

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

  Ken Kesey

  Motivational, Heart, Moments

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• Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality's particles interact with each other every instant, is like a note that rings and resonates throughout the great bell of creation. And the sound of the ringing propagates instantaneously , everywhere at once, interconnecting all things. This is a truth of our universe. It is a mystical truth, that reality at its deepest level is an undivided wholeness.

  David Zindell

  Reality, Sound, Events

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• We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten all of us, equally. No one can say how it will turn out down here. But this is also, we may note, the first time that a species has become able to journey to the planets and the stars. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense a stirring of the breeze.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Journey, Sea

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• Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy
  that moves me!

  Alan Rufus

  Moving, Self, Design

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• I don't do all the background and the worldbuilding before I start the story. What I do is I work out the bare minimum I need to start the story, and often that really is a bare minimum - it's a character in a situation, and I know nothing about the character, I know nothing about the situation, and then I think about it for a long time, and make notes about where I think the story is going to go and so on, but I don't really make notes to do with the background or the magic system or the world.

  Garth Nix

  Character, Thinking, Work Out

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

  John Dryden

  Dying, Complaining, Woe

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.141

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• The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song.

  Sarah McCoy

  Song, Pages, Mark

  Sarah McCoy (2012). “The Baker's Daughter: A Novel”, p.123, Broadway Books

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• Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he have in his tavern, oh so enchanted and sing like a mad man. Mad with the love of a wife for her husband, child or mother, sister or brother... sing for the Most High, sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song, God plays his flute and we all dance along.

  Trevor Hall

  Mother, Song, Brother

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• The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.

  Bill Vaughan

  War, America, Borders

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• Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Life, Skills, Symphony

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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• Dont play any notes. Notes are for babies.

  Sir Richard Bishop

  Baby, Play

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• You don’t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.

  Dan Harmon

  Soup Kitchens, Giving, Performances

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• It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

  Doris Lessing

  Years, Mind, Events

  Doris Lessing (2012). “Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.

  Alfred Austin

  Song, Scent, Rhyme

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.

  Abraham Cowley

  Humble, Inspire, May

  Abraham Cowley, “A Supplication”

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• Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

  Peter Porter

  Heart, Sound, Mystic

  Peter Porter (1970). “The last of England”, Not Avail

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• I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and stuff that I'm not in and really make a good run at it as a production. I'm probably going to take a break from acting after a little while because I've enjoyed the developmental process so much. It helps you as an actor to learn story and to learn how to really nurture a script and work with a writer so you're not sitting there having to write it yourself and give notes.

  Channing Tatum

  Running, Writing, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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