Allan Kozinn Quotes
Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.
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You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.
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A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.
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I don't think it's that serious. If I feel good tomorrow and I feel like I'm not going to jeopardize missing games or hurt the team, I'll play. Otherwise, I'll sit down.
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Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.
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My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.
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The establishment Republicans are beginning to say on the record what they had been whispering about in private for months: that Donald Trump at the top of the ticket could mean an electoral wipeout down the ballot.
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And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
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He stopped and leaned against a pole and looked up at the deaf and swollen sky. It was a movement of dark shapes, a hurrying, a running. He closed his eyes.
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I keep my self updated by reading different books and encyclopedias.
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I could easily fill up each week with going to see debuts of friends' compositions alone. When you add in all of the bands I'm interested in catching and all of the improvisers that I still love, it gets almost impossibly daunting. I try to do as much as I can.
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The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.
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Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.
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Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
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I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
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Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.
