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'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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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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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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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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Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
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When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.
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When a buyer leaves a negative review, it is a great opportunity to connect and find out why they did and how to make your business better.
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I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.
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Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.
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I had a lot of notes and fragments and observations that never amounted to anything. After the Wall had gone down, so many people were writing about Berlin, I didn't have the same urgency or feel enough authority.
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I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.
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I follow blogs, particularly all the main political ones - Guido Fawkes, Iain Dale, Coffee House, Paul Waugh, Iain Martin in the Wall Street Journal, and so on. And some American ones, like the Huffington Post, Gawker, Boing Boing; or Eater and Daily Candy, also American, which are about where to go to eat.
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Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.
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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.
