Barbara Harbach Quotes
Who can forget the music of the French composer Germaine Tailleferre? These are just a few composers whose aesthetic ideals we all share, and there are many more women creators writing stunning and exciting music, and I wish I had space to list them all!
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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My education was very tough.
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Guardiola focuses only on the tactics.
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There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.
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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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Chorus of Birds: Man naturally is deceitful, ever indeed, and always, in every one thing. (tr. Warter 1830, p. 199)
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To be a theater actor, I think you have to do plays all the time.
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Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.
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Republican government presupposes decent and admirable qualities among its citizens - so we should be serious about strengthening character and inculcating virtue.
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When you're the lead, as I was in 'Offender,' you don't have to be perfect all the time; you've got time to get it right.
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They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.
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Who can forget the music of the French composer Germaine Tailleferre? These are just a few composers whose aesthetic ideals we all share, and there are many more women creators writing stunning and exciting music, and I wish I had space to list them all!
