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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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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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 think the goal is always to be both. I put more effort into the technical side of my riding, but style is very important nowadays.
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I don't want to be poor, of course. But I try not to make that the guiding force behind whether I choose to do something or not.
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If you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.
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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.
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The blessing of having your first project be something as fantastic as 'Girls' is that it gave me room to be selective because I didn't feel pressure to do other things. The curse is that my standards were really high.
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I have tremendous respect for film composers.
