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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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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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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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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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There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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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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I want to join everyone in expressing my great sympathy and support for people who lost loved ones in this terrible terrorist attack in Orlando and everybody still in the hospital who is struggling and all the first responders.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
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To work for better understanding among people, one does not have to be a former president sitting at a fancy conference room table. Peace can be made in the neighborhoods, the living rooms, the playing fields, and the classrooms of our country.
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Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
