Walter Damrosch Quotes
If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
Quotes to Explore
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.
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If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
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I like to frequent antiques shops and flea markets like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.
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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
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I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.
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I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again.
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In junior high, I was picked on for being the small skinny kid who enjoyed being in drama. All the drama kids, we were looked at like we were aliens, and people would call us names and say, you know, 'It's stupid to be in drama.' They would say a lot worse things, to be honest.
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If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
