Hector Berlioz Quotes

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

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• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• 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.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• 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.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Women
  • Bond

• The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • May
  • Wall
  • Handwriting

• '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.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Sleep
  • Study
  • Curiosity

• I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

  

  Mae West
  • Believe
  • Fortune
  • Censorship

• We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • Way
  • Wrong

• 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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Space

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Always
  • Creative
  • Causes

• 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.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Different
  • Idea

• For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Why
  • Suffering
  • Sin

• I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Life
  • Live
  • Myself

• I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Support
  • Hand

• 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.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• Sittin' in the mornin' sun, I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes. Watchin' the ships roll in; And I watch 'em roll away again. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Watchin' the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Wastin' time.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Time
  • Sun

• If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Government
  • Effort
  • Socialism

• We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Revolution
  • Originals
  • Enterprising

• If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

  

  George Eliot
  • Men
  • Ideas
  • Rule

• My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

  

  Shaun Cassidy
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Play

• Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

  

  Hector Berlioz
  • Ideas
  • Composer