Maurice Ravel Quotes
'Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?'
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) - you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you.
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To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.
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Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.
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'Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?'
