Elliott Carter Quotes
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
Gary Bettman -
I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
Daniel Barenboim -
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
Malcolm Turnbull -
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
Sam Shepard -
A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
Umera Ahmad
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
Ban Ki-moon -
What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
Patricia Reilly Giff -
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson -
It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
Ian Mcewan -
I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
Landon Donovan -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
Mahershala Ali -
As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
Gavin Newsom -
If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
Taylor Dayne -
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
Ian Mckellen -
It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
Paloma Elsesser -
I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
Nargis Fakhri
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Their officers are working 20 hours a day, and they were just worn out, ... They wanted to have some relief for their officers.
Mike Rutherford Genesis -
It's crazy to think of myself as a musician. It's ridiculous that I get to do it, and I don't necessarily mean music. Getting to do something you really enjoy as a job is an incredible privilege, I think. I still don't really feel like a musician outside of the actual music.
Ben Rector -
The common denominator is a love of music.
Natasha Bedingfield -
The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that riff, that I really liked and made me listen in a different way.
Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush -
All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.
Alec Guinness -
It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.
Elliott Carter