Franz Liszt Quotes
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
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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've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.
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I want to make music three-dimensional. I want to make a song also a painting, and a painting also a culinary experience.
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The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
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If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
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I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.
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The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
