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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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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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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You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
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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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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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None of Chopin's contemporaries could rival him for the variety and effectiveness of his treatment of the return.
