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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That's kind of fuse for the show - those first 10-15 seconds you're onstage. The curtain drops and you see the crowd for the first time and they see you for the first time. The response and the energy that's going on right there - to me, that sets the tone for the rest of the night.
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As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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Hugh [Evans] called us. And obviously this has been on our radar for all the years it`s been going on. And each year obviously reaches more and more people, and it`s high profile. Hugh reached out to our manager just down the street. And we said we`re here [ on GLOBAL CITIZEN in the Central Park] to help and do whatever we can.
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I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.
