Frederic Chopin Quotes

I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

Frederic Chopin

• Audience
• Dumb
• Concerts
• Paralyzed

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• I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Up
  • School
  • Day

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Children
  • Family
  • Death

• Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Internet
  • Tweet
  • Developments

• When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • She
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• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Women
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• The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • United States
  • Greatest

• In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Reality
  • Honesty
  • Page

• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

  Ted Cruz
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  • Mother
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• The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • City

• If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Party
  • Government
  • Feel

• I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Story
  • Tell
  • Miss

• I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• I love rock n' rollers.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Love
  • Rock
  • I Love

• Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Man
  • Political
  • Control

• I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Justice
  • Rap
  • Vigilante

• I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hell

• I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Fear

• I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • Faith
  • Agree

• But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • World
  • Character
  • Strong

• I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Words
  • Know
  • Audience

• Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

  

  Helen Keller
  • War
  • Mean
  • Hero

• I find that the British audience listens and they accept the performer for its value, value as a singer, as a vocalist, value as a performer. You're only accepted if you're good.

  

  Tina Turner
  • Audience
  • Accepting
  • Accepted

• I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Audience
  • Dumb
  • Concerts