Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'
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I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
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I See you.
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Being known for musicals is a great thing.
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Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
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We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
