Aaron Copland Quotes
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.
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I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
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I live in Los Angeles, mostly, and have a lot of girlfriends and a full life out here.
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It's been a very strange trajectory because I struggled for so many years. I mean, I was doing these videos, I was doing these live shows, I had a lot of fans in New York, the press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job, and so my father and I were really like a team.
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Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.
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The voices of fear are so loud today. The voices of love should never shout, but neither should they whisper - not at a time like this.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
