Charles Rosen Quotes
None of Chopin's contemporaries could rival him for the variety and effectiveness of his treatment of the return.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
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Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
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I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
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Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
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I've got tons more stuff to do.
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My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a really big interest in acting because I was always acting in plays with my dolls, and they were sort of boring, because I've seen them on tape; they always involved a lot of singing and dragging them around by their hair.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.
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I want people to be happy.
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If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.
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Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
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Lyrics are what I tend to tear hair out over and they're where I tend to feel weak musically, if I'm being very honest. It is not something I feel like I know anything about; I would not consider myself a writer. I just want to sing, I just want to sing a melody, I just want to feel a melody, and be part of the song, and everything else is not so important.
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I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
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I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.
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I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
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None of Chopin's contemporaries could rival him for the variety and effectiveness of his treatment of the return.
