Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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The comic edge of 'Ghostbusters' will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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For almost a century after the Slaughter-House Cases, the Court followed this narrow reading of the Equal Protection Clause and refused to use it to stop other types of discrimination. For example, in 1875, two years after the Slaughter-House Cases, the Supreme Court held that it was constitutional to deny women the right to vote.
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I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
