Aaron Copland Quotes
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.
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There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
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You have to sacrifice sometimes. There are so many things in life you might want to do, but you have to know when to let go.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
