Aaron Copland Quotes
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Quotes to Explore
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.
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What you focus on expands. Focus on what you are best at and you will be unstoppable.
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I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!
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Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.
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As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
