Evelyn Glennie Quotes
Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
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I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
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I certainly didn't have a nanny.
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One day, my twin sister Sidra and I pranked Tyler Perry on the set of 'For Better or Worse.' I made her dress up as me and do a scene as if she were my character Angela. Tyler says, 'Action!' and my sister starts acting. It was horrible.
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Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.
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Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
