Ivor Novello Quotes
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
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People have also said that I can't be used as a fair example of Hollywood living since I keep my private life so completely separate from my career.
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We ask our neighbors in Saudi Arabia to stop hindering the rule of law and healthy economic development through the purchase of politicians and tribal leaders.
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Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.
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How can an opera express this complicated question of bedsheets?
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Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.
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I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
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I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.
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After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.
