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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances neces

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. – Brian Ferneyhough

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When I speak of cycles, I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate. – Brian Ferneyhough

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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet. – Brian Ferneyhough

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There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. – Brian Ferneyhough

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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isnt in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure. – Jensen Ackles

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I think its one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because theres so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large. – Garry Shandling

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A films success or failure is strictly on the directors shoulders. – Robin Tunney

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My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year. – Mickey Gilley

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But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having. – John Perry Barlow

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There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. – Joni Mitchell

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My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me – not so much the positive stuff, but the damage. – Sherman Alexie

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