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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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
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Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.
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I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'
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The FCC can and indeed should do more to protect the Internet as the free and open environment people have come to expect and depend on - which is why we need to stand up to attacks on the FCC's authority.
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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.
