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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I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and even painful to explore your own weakness, but it gives you genuine emotion. Characters in fiction come alive because of the believability of their emotional lives and that is what I strive to create.
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Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.
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Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.
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I used to be a bitch. I met her at Hooters. She didn't have big boobs, but she could turn her head in a circle just like an owl. (p. 2).
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I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.
