Philip Glass Quotes
Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.
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I like guys who drive trucks.
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I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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Movement came out while we were away. The reviews were OK, and though I grew to like it more and more as the years went by, we weren’t especially happy with it at the time. When we listened to the finished product what we heard was the sound of a band whose producer had lost faith. You could hear it. The album had ended up sounding like a Joy Division album with New Order vocals.
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The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of the body can also be understood as metaphors for the expression of our being
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Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.
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The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.
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Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.
