Richard Rodney Bennett Quotes
I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.Richard Rodney Bennett
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
F. L. Lucas -
Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
Ian Mckellen -
Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
Karen Salmansohn -
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
Adam Driver
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple -
Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
Gail Sheehy -
Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
H. G. Bissinger -
I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
Zach Braff -
A barrier for me – which has been both a strength and a weakness – has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.
Randa Haines -
Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells
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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
Quavo Migos -
Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.
Carlton Cuse -
When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.
Jan Mark -
I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
Jeff Bridges -
An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
Marina Abramovic -
It's not a hard sell to be asked to do something in Ireland.
Bryce Dessner The National
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Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.
William McKinley -
...makes my TV work look professional.
Eddie Mair -
I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought "Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again." I've got thousands of songs.
Dolly Parton -
I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
Patrick Duffy -
October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.
Richard Rodney Bennett