Elliott Carter Quotes
Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.
Elliott Carter
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Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.
Ilan Stavans
I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
Maggie Grace
The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
Felix Dennis
Cryptocurrency currencies take the concept of money, and they take it native into computers, where everything is settled with computers and doesn't require external institutions or trusted third parties to validate things.
Naval Ravikant
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.
Kate Brown
What's needed is patience and composure. The bank deposits of the Greek people are fully secure. The same applies to the payment of wage and pension - they are also guaranteed.
Alexis Tsipras
Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.
Andrew Tobias
Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to it until I really know the voice of that character. It's almost as if the character is speaking to me.
Kimberly Willis Holt
I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.
Trent Reznor
Nine Inch Nails
Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.
Lynda Obst
There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.
Max von Laue
Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.
D. H. Lawrence
I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.
Luke Bryan
It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersections, no fish and no ducks. OK?
Molly Ivins
Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.
Natasha Trethewey
I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
Mark Twain
Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.
Elliott Carter
