Carl Orff Quotes
I am often asked why I nearly always select old material, fairy tales and legends for my stage works. I do not look upon them as old, but rather as valid material. The time element disappears, and only the spiritual power remains. My entire interest is in the expression of spiritual realities. I write for the theater in order to convey a spiritual attitude.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
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For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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You have to be a little commercial, and that's what I learnt over the years.
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I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
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As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.
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I think four Olympics is probably enough. Five Olympics is a long time, but there's nothing wrong with that if I'm into it and I'm healthy and my priorities can fit around that.
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I am often asked why I nearly always select old material, fairy tales and legends for my stage works. I do not look upon them as old, but rather as valid material. The time element disappears, and only the spiritual power remains. My entire interest is in the expression of spiritual realities. I write for the theater in order to convey a spiritual attitude.
