Terry Riley Quotes

I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired.

Terry Riley

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TimeTiredPlanLongPlayLong Time

I start from one point and go as far as possible. But, unfortunately, I never lose my way. I 'localize,' which is to say that I think always in a given space. I rarely think of the whole of a solo, and only very briefly. I always return to the small part of the solo that I was in the process of playing.

John Coltrane

SpaceSmallStartThinkLoseGo

Tacos are the perfect food.

Sophia Bush

FoodPerfect

Supermarkets didn't even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I'd been round the back. I'd seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it.

Tristram Stuart

FoodMeThoughtBackWantTalk

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

Shirley Chisholm

ChairYouTableBringSeatGive

People on the Left get a pass when it comes to condemning white Americans.

Mike Gallagher

PeopleWhiteLeftPassGet

I'm a movie buff. My mom would take me to a double feature. We'd come out, go have Chinese food, and then go back into another cinema and see another double feature. I feel I'm a child of the movies.

Loretta Swit

FoodChildMeMomFeelCinema

Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.

Joss Whedon

KidWellWhoHatedEveryExcept

The central question is whether Medicare and Medicaid should remain entitlement programs guaranteeing a certain amount of care, as Democrats believe, or become defined contribution programs in which federal spending is capped, as Republicans suggest.

Christina Romer

BelieveCareContributionBecome

It's when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It's always beyond what you've ever done.

Bruce Wilkinson

Comfort ZoneThinkYouDreamComfort

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

Arne Jacobsen

TrainingSchoolThinkYouHardFine

The Russell side of my family is a clan with some serious genetics.

Wyatt Russell

FamilySeriousGeneticsSideSome

You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.

Shia LaBeouf

LiveYouKnowMeetUnderstandNever

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