Michael Tippett Quotes
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
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I follow the director's lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play.
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America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
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In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.
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Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.
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Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.
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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.
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Duplication never works for anybody.
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The intelligence community agrees 30 percent of the terrorists released from Guantanamo are known or suspected to have already re-joined the fight against Americans_- a statistic that translates to a horrific reality.
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Oscar Williams’s new book is pleasanter and a little quieter than his old, which gave the impression of having been written on a typewriter by a typewriter.
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Religion wasn't imposed on me.
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I am an unapologetic Christian, constitutional conservative, pro-life, Second Amendment-loving American!
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Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
