John Tavener Quotes
I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.
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I would like to direct.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
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I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.
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Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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I gotta spread all this love that I have for myself, I gotta spread it to everybody else, because my positivity is going to change at least one person's day a day, and that's all that matters to me.
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I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.
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I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.
