One-sentence meme (swunked from privatemaladict and agatha_s)

Posted below are ten sentence beginnings from my lj posts.
Complete each sentence in any way you like.
Post this in your LJ with ten incomplete sentences from your journal entries.

1 - I hope people remember my view...
2 - Weird news of the day: the BBC has just revealed...
3 - Your postcard was...
4 - Make outrageous statements to indulge...
5 - I do not think that the following facts have been widely noticed...
6 - I cannot do anything about it, but...
7 - I have not taken much part in the rabid stream of...
8 - Is it only me...
9 - Almost exactly a year ago, I...
10 - I am going to watch with great interest whatever public appearance...

I am not sure everyone will understand what I am speaking about, but I hope so.

The difference that truly supreme musicianship makes! I just heard Edith Piaf sing Parlez-moi d'amour, a song I simply hated when I heard it from Mireille Mathieu. And Mireille Mathieu is by no means a bad singer. BUT....!!

It works even with stuff that is great in itself. I have been listening over and over again to Glenn Gould's accounts of Beethoven's piano sonate. These are among the peaks of the art of music, but Gould proves that it is possible to add even to something that is already incomparably great.

Happy birthday to my mother. And to agatha_s

I've known the one all my life and the other for a few months, but I love them both.