Pierre Schaeffer Quotes
The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.
Pierre Schaeffer
Quotes to Explore
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
Zane Grey
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
Park Chan-wook
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
V. E. Schwab
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
Frances Beinecke
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
Edmund Hillary
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
Sam Heughan
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
Sam Worthington
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
A. J. Cook
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
Kalpana Chawla
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
Denis Waitley
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I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.
Beeban Kidron
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The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy.
Stanley Kirk Burrell
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
Joseph Stalin
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The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.
Pierre Schaeffer
