Isaac Stern Quotes
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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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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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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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Music is something that is supposed to connect people on a pure level.
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At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy think tanks.
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I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.
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On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People come into work and actually go home to their families.
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I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.
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Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.
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The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.
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We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.
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I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.
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The failure to prosecute trivializes the acts constituting the crime, suggesting, in the case of President Bush, that torture, disappearance, cruel and inhuman treatment, abrogation of our treaties, violation of our laws on privacy, deception of the Congress, and subversion of the constitutional checks on war making are minor matters, easily overlooked. It means rejecting what used to be regarded as core American values, and even worse, sends a clear signal to future presidents that they may act with similar disregard for the law.
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It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.
