Philip Glass Quotes
My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.
Philip Glass
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
Dalai Lama
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
LaToya Jackson
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Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.
Unita Zelma Blackwell
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I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.
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Turkeys are intelligent, social, curious, and sometimes even funny. I wish people were more like turkeys sometimes. … We're going to have a special celebration for turkeys this November, where we're going to hang out with turkeys, we're not going to eat them, we're just going to kind of chill, hang out, talk with the turkeys, eat a little veggies.
Biz Stone
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Put all our pride away, always find a gentle word to say, you know we shouldn't be full of ourselves when we should be full of humility .
Dawud Wharnsby Ali
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I'm always scared of trends. The runways are always so trend-oriented, but I always feel for the women. The real women that buy cosmetics want to see the trends, but they don't necessarily go for them. And I always encourage women to find what looks best on them.
Francois Nars
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My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.
Philip Glass
