John Corigliano Quotes
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Those who go along get along.
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Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.
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At about 17, I decided I wanted to take kiteboarding seriously and compete, so my agents were like, 'Just keep sending in a few audition tapes anyway, just for good stuff.'
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Too clever is dumb.
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I've been in many auditions thinking, 'God, do I have to take my shirt off?'
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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We're building what I call 'software apartheid.' We're in the process of creating a divided society: those who can use technology on one side, and those who can't on the other. And it happens to divide neatly along economic lines.
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I first read Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as a teen in school, like you did. I read the book alone, eating lunch at my locker, neatly scored oranges my mother divided into five lines with a circle at the top, so my fingers could dig more easily into the orange skin. To this day, the smell of oranges reminds me of 'Mockingbird.'
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I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.
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That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
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More always means worse.
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I have tremendous respect for film composers.
