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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So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.
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What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.
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Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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I think if you just eat healthy, you're active, and you don't beat yourself up, you're setting yourself up to win rather than setting yourself up for failure.
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Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
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It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.
