Pierre Boulez Quotes
The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
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Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.
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My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym.
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Big government makes small citizens.
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I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk.
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When I have a little down time, I like to go to the gym and try to bank some hours there. I like to spend time with my dogs, go hiking, do a little traveling.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.
