Elliott Carter Quotes
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
Quotes to Explore
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
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There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.
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I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.
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It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
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When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.
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I don't like actors, I like women.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.
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I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.
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I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.
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My whole thing, my priority, is my family, my kids, and my wife. That's my future. I don't really care about what role is next.
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A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.
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Hair got caught in the sunlight darling But I just wasted the day. I knew it would happen this way.
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Be there as the witnessing presence of your inner state. You don’t have to do anything. With the awareness comes transformation and freedom.
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As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.
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Women, once sex gets out in the open, they become monsters. You're a creep if you fuck them and a creep if you don't.
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My new favourite smell is new baby smell. It makes me so happy. If someone could bottle that, I'd love to have it.
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I opened the door to the healing process and, sometime, I’ll be able to close that door.
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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
