Mstislav Rostropovich Quotes
People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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You always learn something from mistakes.
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I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.
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I'm a fraidy cat. I play everything very safe in my life, so I think that's why I like characters that don't.
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I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication.
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Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.
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In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.
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We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.
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I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.
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California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
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Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
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The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.
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Growth follows knowledge; action follows inspiration; opportunity follows perception; always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement.
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I want my home to look good, feel good, and smell good. I want it to be inclusive, to reflect the people who live there.
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When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I'm at the Olympics with him, and it's like: 'Woah.'
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People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
