Franz Liszt Quotes
Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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I loved experiencing city life in New York.
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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.
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There are times when the only people you spend time with are the people in your team. That's hard, because I think, 'I'm a girl. I want to hang out with other girls. I just want to be a normal young woman.'
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I was inspired to become an actor from theater I'd seen, so I assumed I'd do a lot of theater. But when I left Guidhall, the first thing I did was a short film - I played the main character. And I loved it. I love working on camera. I love the smallness of it and the detail and the routine of it.
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After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.
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Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.
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Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.
