Session Quotes - Page 13

• And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Happiness, Fear, Sun

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1971). “The world of Gwendolyn Brooks”, Harpercollins

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• A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.

  John A. Macdonald

  House, Gentleman, Firsts

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• The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.

  Euell Gibbons

  Food, Doors, Cake

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• people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

  Margaret Halsey

  Doctors, People, Fifty

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Growing Up, Believe

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• Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the director and just listen to him or her talk about the film - what they're trying to say, what they want the audience to understand or believe, and a thousand other similar questions. The director has most likely been living with the film for years before a composer is attached, and so the director's inclinations, desires, and understanding of the film are paramount.

  John Keltonic

  Believe, Writing, Years

  "A Conversation With Prolific Music Composer & Producer John Keltonic". Interview with Norm Goldman, www.bookpleasures.com. July 21, 2015.

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• The process always starts with detailed conversations with the director, followed by a spotting session (deciding where the music goes and doesn't go in the film, and what the music should be saying or not saying) in each scene. This is followed by sending the director demos of each cue for feedback.

  John Keltonic

  Directors, Film, Scene

  "A Conversation With Prolific Music Composer & Producer John Keltonic". Interview with Norm Goldman, www.bookpleasures.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Abraham Maslow taught me, that when you're working with a patient, never let them spend more than a few moments on the problem, because what you think about is what expands, and if they're talking about the problem all the time, when they leave your session, the problem will expand. Get 'em to put their attention on what they intend to create, or on solutions.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Talking, Attention

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• For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it's almost like I black out and just start singing whatever is on my mind and forget it as soon as I stop.

  Beth Moore

  Writing, Black, Mind

  Source: canadianbeats.ca

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• I've never not finished a masturbatory session or a pizza. Those are the two things I've never left behind.

  Adam Carolla

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus posture or whatever it is. That's what you're doing.

  Anne Waldman

  Buddhist, Training, Lotuses

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• All those "getting hit/losing rings" sounds tend to be recorded toward the end of a recording session. Depending on the type of game, those efforts and screams can be pretty rough on the voice, so they usually like to record them at the end. You might do hundreds of versions of vocal sounds for a game and you can come out a little hoarse afterward.

  Roger Craig Smith

  Voice, Games, Effort

  Source: www.nintendolife.com

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• I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a career in music. I studied classical music, and my instruments were guitar and piano. I played keyboards in bands, and after high school I went to Vienna to study at the Academy of Music. I also became a session player, which culminated in my work with Tangerine Dream.

  Paul Haslinger

  Dream, Teenager, School

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• My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.

  Ishmael Reed

  Black, Males, Generations

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them "Our exercise today is not to use 'undo' at all. So, there's no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take. There's no sort of drop in, change that little bit". The session broke down in, I'd say, 40 minutes. It was impossible for people to work in that restriction any longer.

  Brian Eno

  Exercise, People, Interesting

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Believe, Destiny, Sky

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.136, Vintage

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• Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Political, Kitchen

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• My brother & I have always said that to write a song, it takes all the experiences of your life, plus the time it takes to write it! To be specific, yes, sometimes a song takes place in one session - together in one day.

  Richard Sherman

  Song, Brother, Writing

  "Richard Sherman Talks The AristoCats". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 5, 2008.

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• As I get older it gets harder and harder to hold on to the ephemeral excitement. When a documentary, or a screenplay, or even just a brainstorming session is going well I get to experience sense of hope, and expansiveness, even if it's just for a moment.

  Andrew Neel

  Ephemeral, Documentaries, Excitement

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I honestly don't remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album is like that. It may be that there are different locations, it may take longer, shorter, or whatever, but it's always something that just happened.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Song, Location, Different

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• The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems. This is what clarifies their import and makes them understandable. Some students spend most of their lives attending scholarly sessions. Still, one finds them silent. They do not talk and do not discuss matters. More than is necessary, they are concerned with memorizing. Thus, they do not obtain much of a habit in the practice of scholarship and scholarly instruction.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Practice, Matter, Students

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• People like to think the worst. They like to have hushed gossip sessions and point their fingers at someone's problems that are more obvious than their own.

  Marcia Lynn McClure

  Thinking, People, Gossip

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• I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

  Doug Liman

  Track, Diaries, Way

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• In all honesty, as you grow older, you understand how important it is to give everything in every workout, training session and match. When you're younger, you think game and practice are different. The sooner you understand they aren't, the better.

  Jozy Altidore

  Workout, Honesty, Thinking

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. June 16, 2014.

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• I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.

  Gerard Way

  Writing, Records, Plans

  "Until I'm Done Or Until I Get Fired: Gerard Way On His Plans For Young Animal". Interview With Andrew Wheeler, comicsalliance.com. April 21, 2016.

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