Charles Ives Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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Pilates is great.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.
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While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
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With ritual, I punctuate my days till they no longer belong to who I am today but to who I'll be when I look back in days and years to come.
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For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.
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God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
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But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
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I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.
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Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.
