Sandra Cisneros Quotes
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.
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I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.
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When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.
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I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
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When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
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You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.
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If you talk to anybody, among the first things you'll hear is, 'Steve Carell is the nicest guy in the world.' And he is. 'Steve Carell is the greatest guy to work with.' And he is. But all of that belies other aspects that are as true with him.
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How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
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For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.
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Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.
