Richard Strauss Quotes
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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People work hard.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.
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We all have our own little thing, I think.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
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'The Voice' ignited a fire in me to be an artist and to be a country singer, but not winning ignited an even bigger fire, because I was just like, 'First of all, I know that I want this'; now I wanted it even more, 'cause I didn't know if I had a record deal.
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Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.
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One of Lady Antebellum's first big tours was opening up for Kenny Chesney.
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I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.
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Theosophy blesses the world; Theology is its curse.
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If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.
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You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody close to you die to understand what death is. Definitely, the more you live, the more experiences fall into your spectrum. As a writer, you must have been told: Write about what you know. But Kafka didn't. Gogol didn't. Did Shakespeare write only what he knew? Our own selves are limitless. And our capacity for empathy is giant.
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The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
