Erich Segal Quotes
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I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.
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It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
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The good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much more difficult if you're trying to take something you've overdubbed alone on stage. But again, there are some benefits.
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Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
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In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish. I'm not really concerned with what the original version in English was, because the important thing for me is that I received them already translated, and they've influenced my original worldview as translations, not as original quotations.
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Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.
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When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.
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If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.
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If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.
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I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the best from each to represent my own personality. Whitney Houston, George Michaels, Sade, Phil Collins, and many others have influenced me.
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The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the same crease-unless we make a new crease or fold, when it will follow the last lines.
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Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them
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If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.
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The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.
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The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.
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It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.
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Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.
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Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.
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I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading, writing and arithmetic. I'd say reading, writing, arithmetic and rhythm. But that should be a prerequisite, because then the quality of music in the world at least in the United States, would be much better, if everyone knew something about the piano and about music, they would know this is not good. Right now, there is so much music out that's not good, but no one knows the public doesn't know.
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One went on and on, never dreaming of the sudden dreadful day when the coverings were going to be dropped and one would see it was death after all, that it had been death all the time, death pretending, death waiting.
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Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.
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Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love
