Isaac Stern Quotes
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre.
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I would love an upgrade from the Nielsen box; it feels so antiquated to me.
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The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
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I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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I can't act without music very well.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.
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I was patriarch To Elijah and Elijah. I was there at the crucifixion Of the merciful Mabon.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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For the Palestinians' efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.
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Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.
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I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."
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When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and letting them grow.
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It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.
