Igor Stravinsky Quotes
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
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Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever
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Connie Smith and I have worked a lot of shows together in the past, and it will be nice to do that again
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I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.
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Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
