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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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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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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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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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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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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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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My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
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I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.
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People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.
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I absolutely love writing about the things that scare me, the things that keep me up at night. I don't quite know why. Perhaps because so many things do scare me, and this is my subconscious way of trying to exercise some control over things that go bump in the night!
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I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.
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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.
