Keith Emerson Quotes
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.
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As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.
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I am very proud of my service, and by law, I am defined as a combat veteran.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do.
