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John Corigliano

"What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make."

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"What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make."

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Akiroq Brost

"Life is really very simple. In each moment, we have the opportunity to choose between saying "yes or "no, to listen to our intuition, to listen to our true inner voice, the Existential voice within ourselves. When we say "yes, we have contact with Existence and we receive nourishment, love, joy, support and inspiration. When we say "no, we create a separation from life and begin to create dreams and expectations of how it should be. We begin to live in the memories of the past and in the fantasies of the future " as if any other time than here and now really could make us happy and satisfied."

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"Men and women alike have convinced themselves of a dragging belief: that somehow women are incomplete without having children."

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"With all these forks in the roads of our path, why do so many choose to take the knife?"

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"Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one's self."

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"Who you are is why you choose poorly, or fail to choose wisely."

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"But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years."

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Akiroq Brost

"Because this injunction for all women to have children isn't in any way logical. If you take a moment to consider the state of the world, the thing you notice is that there are plenty of babies being born; the planet really doesn't need all of us to produce more babies."

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"All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!"

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"To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!"

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"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."
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"Art is not only about angst."
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"Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it."
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"I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names."
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