Frederic Chopin Quotes
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
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The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.
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Sometimes, things just fall into your lap, and that's pretty incredible.
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It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself.
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to 'fast track' these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.
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Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
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All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
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Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.
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And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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If someone didn't believe in me that would kind of be a compliment in a way.
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The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
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When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I could not bear the sight of him.
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Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
