Oksana Baiul Quotes
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Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
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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 am always locked in my design studio.
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In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we're not aware of. This could be the 'in-between the notes generation.'
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
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In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
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I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
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Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.
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I watched the coral reefs that I studied as a student vanish in the blink of an eye, and for decades I wrote and spoke of ocean obituaries. But big scary problems without solutions lead to apathy, not action.
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It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy.
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The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.
