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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Elizabeth II

Time

American

Right

Statesmanship

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Time

Possessions

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

George Eliot

Time

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.

I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!

In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here.

I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time.

Danny Elfman

Time

Want

I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.