Mitch Leigh Quotes

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

Mitch Leigh

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• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Small
  • Literature
  • Loved

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• 'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Dark
  • Blue
  • Season

• My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • College
  • Thought
  • Athlete

• I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Chaos
  • Well
  • Dishwasher

• In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

  Gail Devers
  • Broken
  • Feet
  • February

• Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Talent
  • Everyone
  • Fifty

• He's got tons of experience, and he's a very good holder. We felt like it was somebody we need to look at.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Game

• Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more - hear more - and know more. All of it cannot die.

  

  Kate Greenaway
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Die

• I don't mean to be arrogant, but if we're executing our skills there's not a side that can get close to us.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Skills
  • Side
  • Arrogant

• Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Racism
  • Capitalism
  • Separated

• It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • True
  • Value
  • Yoga

• The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Success
  • Romantic
  • Characters

• I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful. I'll probably use that information for the rest of my career, in terms of writing novels or writing stories. And then, of course, to help me live a better story, a more meaningful story.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Writing
  • Live

• Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Good
  • Reality

• The way I play cricket is to win games and do the best for the country and the team. If I happen to be ranked number one, great. But it doesn't mean anything to me as a player.

  

  Andre Nel
  • Country
  • Win
  • Cricket

• It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

  

  Bela Bartok
  • God
  • Believe
  • May

• The longer I live, the more boring youth becomes. So redundant. Each generation rediscovers the wheel of rebellion, the wheel of love, and so forth and so on. We hardly know which end is up until we’re in our thirties.

  

  BarbaraNeely
  • Generation
  • Youth
  • Boring

• What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.

  

  Camille Saint-Saens
  • Expression
  • Composer
  • Expressive

• It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.

  

  Michael Medved
  • Changed
  • Expectations
  • Prejudice

• To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

  

  Mitch Leigh
  • Composer
  • Somebody
  • Redundant