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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I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.
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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 may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.
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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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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
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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 someone's roommate, that's for sure. You can't do certain things: you can't leave the bathroom door open... you can't put your feet on the couch, you can't hide stuff in the couch.
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It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.
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I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.
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My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.
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A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.
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When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.
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I could do whatever I wanted, whether people liked it or not.
