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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I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.
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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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It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? It's the dream to have a true connection with another human being.
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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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Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's sort of like being a child. When you're finished with school, you have only one thing on your mind: to get out and experience life. Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.
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A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played the Allegro and the Scherzo more or less correctly. I was about to attack the March when suddenly I saw arising from the body of my piano those cursed creatures which had appeared to me one lugubrious night at the Chartreuse. I had to leave for one instant to pull myself together after which I continued without saying anything.
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I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.
