Frederic Chopin Quotes
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
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Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
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Fame is a very strange animal.
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A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
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The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
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I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.
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I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
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A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
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Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
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Trust me, kids - your homework can wait. Don't need to be doing homework while Whose Line is on; skip it!
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An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.
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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
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I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.
