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.
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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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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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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 feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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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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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
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Even men who share their personal experiences find that, instead of empathy, they get the response Dear Abby gave this man: 'Women have it worse.' This belief is so strong that over the past quarter century, women’s old fantasy of marrying a man-as-protector has been tainted by women’s new nightmare of husband-as-batterer.
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In San Diego, I saw Keith Urban perform, and I've seen a lot of acts, and he's better than anybody I've seen.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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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.
