Don't ever play with someone's feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.
Interpretation
Playing with someone's emotions may offer short-term gains, but it risks long-term loss of meaningful connections.
This quote warns against the emotional manipulation of others. While one might achieve a temporary advantage or enjoyment by toying with someone's feelings, this behavior can lead to permanent damage to the relationship, potentially losing someone who mattered greatly in the process.
In practice
This quote can be used in a conversation about emotional honesty in relationships.
Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.
I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
You see women struggling to keep it all together while a loved one is in jail. But we don't hear about them or their struggles in a way that resonates with others. Their stories are so compelling. It's as if they are in their own little world and no one else sees them.
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Later, going home, I realized they didn't look alike at all; what made them seem to was the aftermath of stress and the lingering of sorrow. It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.
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