Mitch Albom Quotes
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
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I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.
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Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
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As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.
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I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.
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I don't want anybody to underestimate the difficulties ahead.
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Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.
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Most of my reading is based on what I'm working on. I did a series of paintings based on the seven deadly sins, so I read Dante and then Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' That was a bit hard going.
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I love horror movies, but it's not the only thing I want to do.
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You have to work at creating your own culture.
