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John Zorn Quotes

I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.

John Zorn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 2, 1953

Topics

Work Happiness Best Doing Doubt You

I think the best way to deal with fitting in is to be yourself. It sounds hard, but in the end, it's much easier than pretending to be something you're not.

Meaghan Jette Martin

Best Yourself Be Yourself Think End

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

John M. Ford

Language Chosen Effect Use Least

Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

Matt Mullenweg

Why Working Stuck Model Factory

Philadelphia's Schuylkill River has long been the mother of waters for mid-Atlantic rowers, just as the Charles, which separates Boston from Cambridge, is for New England boaters.

Roger Morris

Mother River Long Philadelphia New

I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So I left school and went back to jazz.

Lizz Wright

Music School Year Back Jazz Opera

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Joyce Meyer

God I Am Thank God Want Used May

I don't consider myself a nerd; I consider myself a dork more. I'm closer to a dork, if anything, just because I'm not good at stuff. I'm more like a failed non-nerd.

Josh Gondelman

Good Myself Just Because More Stuff

I always loved Michelle Kwan's outfits. Most of them were designed by Vera Wang, and they're just so simple, but the fabric that they used and the way that it was sewn together look so elegant and rich. You could tell that time had been put into it. It wasn't just another spandex, stucco-covered costume.

Ashley Wagner

Time Together Simple Rich Loved You

I need an office and a place I can sit down to get away from television and just write.

Allison Tolman

Television Down I Can Place Office

I adjust my priorities according to the most important project I'm involved in at the time.

Willy Bogner, Jr.

Time Priorities Important Project

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

Pierce Brosnan

Sad Experience You Always Something

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

Penn Jillette

Moment Someone You Intellectual