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 don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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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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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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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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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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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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I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.
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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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Strike the concertina's melancholy string!
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.
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Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
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I could do whatever I wanted, whether people liked it or not.
