Hector Berlioz Quotes
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Quotes to Explore
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
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I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.
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I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.
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Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all.
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It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
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A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
