Anton Webern Quotes
The impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality
Quotes to Explore
-
When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
-
I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.
-
Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
-
I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
-
Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
-
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
-
Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
-
I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
-
In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.
-
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
-
I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
-
I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
-
Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
-
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
-
The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
-
Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.
-
Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
-
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
-
I was a little hesitant to do 'Love & Hip-Hop' because sometimes reality TV can be good for your music career and sometimes bad.
-
You wouldn't say ' You've got the crappest eyes I've ever seen. Your eyes make me physically sick.
-
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
-
People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has not fallen, if they are really shoveling in the steak, they don't lose weight.
-
The impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality
