Bedrich Smetana Quotes
By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
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Reich and John Cage were pretty big influences on this record (Folie A Deux) in weird ways in that you wouldn't necessarily hear any of it - nothing ends up sounding like either of them, but I think just methodology and things like that ended up on the record in various ways.
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I am not called Cugel the Clever for nothing.
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At age 7 In eight hours of concentrated practice between my twice-weekly lessons, I memorized the A major and played it for Persinger.
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Well, its not that bad. I thought she was going to show me a picture of uhhhh...an eagle on her ass or something.
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The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:
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What, for me, was exciting about America was just this extraordinary, complex, difficult, fascinating country, and Britain can feel very small. London, in particular, feels small because everything happens there, so you have publishing, politics, you have finance; everything in Britain happens in London.
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What I've realized is that, especially in Los Angeles, a lot of people are on some kind of path, even if they're not completely conscious of it. I've sort of always been on a path to find more peace, more security within myself. I've always felt like I needed something to help me feel better.
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There's some bells you can't unring.
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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
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By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition.
