R. Murray Schafer Quotes
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
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I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
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You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement.
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Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.
