Niki de Saint Phalle Quotes
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
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The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.
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The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
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I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
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I want to be in a stable relationship and have kids by the time I'm 30.
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I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.
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I wouldn't want to be a James Bond.
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I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.
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We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.
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Let's be honest: I just want a Super Bowl ring.
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I don't want my kid to hear any of the albums that I've made.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I love being from Wisconsin.
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With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.
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We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.
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I could do whatever I wanted, whether people liked it or not.
