Elliott Carter Quotes
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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I am the face and ambassador of sambo. The organization I'm working is trying really hard to make sambo a sport on the Olympian level.
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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.
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As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.
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'Dark Gods,' T. E. D. Klein's book of four novellas, felt like a godsend - even if it came from a deformed god, one that lurked beneath our sidewalks.
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Most of the time I got a ticket, I deserved it. I knew why I was pulled over. But there were times when I didn’t. The data shows that this is not an aberration. It doesn’t mean each case is a problem. It means that when you aggregate all the cases and you look at it, you’ve gotta say that there’s some racial bias in the system.
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How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!
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Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.
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I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.
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O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.
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A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.
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For me, religion is a political construct, and spirituality is a community construct, and there's a real difference.
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I don't look any further than what's right in front of me.
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An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.
