Virgil Thomson Quotes
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Without a dog, no one will listen to your opinions for more than a few minutes without interrupting to tell you their opinions, which you won't find nearly as interesting.
W. Bruce Cameron
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
Dan Jenkins
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
Rafael dos Anjos
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
Eddie Trunk
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
Gal Gadot
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
Harold Nicolson
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Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
Fran Drescher
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
Nargis Fakhri
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
Narendra Modi
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
Bat for Lashes
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
Nancy McKeon
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
Karen Handel
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
Edgar Wright
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
Naomi Benaron
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A decade in advertising exposed me to plenty of schemers and backstabbers. But honestly, advertising is wonderful training for fiction. Writing novels is much easier if you've ever tried to write a billboard.
Marcus Sakey
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I believe that India's long-term growth story is strong, and foreign investors are keen to be a part of it.
Chanda Kochhar
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I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
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I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.
Daniel Boulud
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I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.
Virgil Thomson