#rod

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone. ↗

— Olivier Messiaen

#exactly #like #made #make #music

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers. ↗

— Ann Miller

#girl #i #never #party #party girl

Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market. ↗

— Gary Miller

#countries #crude #crude oil #energy #energy companies

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young. ↗

— Kate Millett

#animal life #been #care #confined #cultural

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

#acceptance #changes #considered #defect #does

I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television. ↗

— Katherine Moennig

#action #apologize #being #certain #certain extent

I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#actually #allows #always #artist #because

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#difficult #disease #eradicate #goal #i

Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film. ↗

— Ron Moody

#destined #fagin #fate #film #i

Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution. ↗

— John Moody

#difficulties #even #even now #far #farmers