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.
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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.
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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.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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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.
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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.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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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.
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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.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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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.
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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.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.
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No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body. As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands and complications.
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There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
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Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
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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.
