John Corigliano Quotes
I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.
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I could play a gig on the moon and not be nervous about it.
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Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.
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People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I'm going to be playing in something, because he's envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.
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I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.
