Carlo Grante Quotes
Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's a physical habit that can be replicated. For pianists, this is much more of a problem than for other instruments, like the violin, where you actually have to think of the pitch.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.
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There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.
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Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.
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Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
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If you declare Crocker's Rules, other people don't need to worry about being tactful to you. (You still need to worry about being tactful to them - Crocker's Rules only work one way.)
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If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society... So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem.
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Beings who are so uniquely constituted must necessarily express themselves in other ways than ordinary men. It is impossible that with souls so differently modified, they should not carry over into the expression of their feelings and ideas the stamp of those modifications.
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Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
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Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.
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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
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Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.
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Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's a physical habit that can be replicated. For pianists, this is much more of a problem than for other instruments, like the violin, where you actually have to think of the pitch.
