Ernest Dimnet Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.
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I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.
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I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
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I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.
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With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.
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I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.
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I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
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'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.
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There was a big difference between Ron Paul and me when it came to the 'no.' His 'no' was philosophical. It was reasoned. It was right. My 'no' actually put a stop to legislation. It cut spending. Mine carried further than just no.
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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn't only have one way of seeing things.
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.
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Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.
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As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.
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A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
