Marketa Irglova Quotes
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does.
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I would like to think all our gifts and talents and abilities come from God.
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In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.
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My mom is a gym teacher, and she's not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.
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I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than I've ever been, which is kind of odd, coming close to the finish line.
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Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.
