Jacqueline du Pre Quotes
I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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Chinese people age overnight.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's tempting because that's where the money is. I've had to be very careful; as soon as I think I'm getting close to that dry well, I wrap the series up. I don't want to just keep writing something because it sells.
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To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
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A state’s foreign policy should not just be smart, it should also be just.
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Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.
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THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea
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I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
