John Eaton Quotes
Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
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We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
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I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.
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I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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It has been a tumultuous journey, no doubt. But I feel blessed to have got work.
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I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.
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And ne'er did Grecian chisel traceA Nymph, a Naiad, or a GraceOf finer form or lovelier face.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.
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To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a crucial moment of sensation or release.By crisis by no means limited to a morbid state, but could just as easily be an ecstatic impulse.
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
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His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest.
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Among the major tasks before us none is of greater importance for our strength and stability than the task of building up the unity and solidarity of our people.
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The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
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Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.
