Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.
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When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.
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I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.
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My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.
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You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.
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We are God's productions, His compositions.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
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We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.
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Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.
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The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.
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Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.
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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
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In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.
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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
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There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.
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Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
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Improvisation is a compositional method.
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Why did I decide to become an actor ? I decided because my brother helped me decide. I knew nothing about the entertainment industry, and never thought I actually would. I never had an interest in it. I grew up not watching many movies or rarely watching TV.
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Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers of God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is not nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines.
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Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
