E. Y. Harburg Quotes
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
Quotes to Explore
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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I think in general, doing The X-Factor with the Steve Aoki song was the most difficult time, but also weirdly the most rewarding as well. I definitely felt like I couldn't do it, and then I definitely felt the support from everyone around me, the friends and family but also the fans and people outside of that.
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Music comes from the heart and should reach the heart again.
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By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.
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The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.
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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
