Samuel Barber Quotes
I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.
Samuel Barber
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
Abbe Pierre
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
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Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When was the last time Russia was having a super big international pop star in the U.S.?' I don't know, but I can name a few from Sweden. I think that gives us a lot of confidence in being pop stars because we're like, 'Oh, we actually can. We know we can.'
Zara Larsson
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
Ines de La Fressange
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
Rachel Cusk
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I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
J. C. Chandor
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
Jack Kevorkian
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
Cameron Monaghan
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
Gaby Hoffmann
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
Jack Kemp
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
Dana Brunetti
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
Daniel Craig
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If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.
Katha Pollitt
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
Pat Barker
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It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa – that's the story of my life!
Tatiana de Rosnay
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Sometimes we need to let go of the old to make room for the new.
Casey Neistat
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I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.
Samuel Barber
