Frederic Chopin Quotes
There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
-
I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
-
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
-
I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
-
It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
-
I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
-
I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all, I've never had a husband.
-
We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
-
For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
-
The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.
-
Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
-
You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
-
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
-
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
-
In Colombia, we have a lot of passion.
-
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
-
When I was younger, I used to find stories about divas charming. Not much anymore.
-
You learn the hard way. That's the thing with social media. Nobody knows what they're doing.
-
Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
-
I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.
-
I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.
-
My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what I'm saying?
-
The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.
-
There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano.
