Witold Lutosławski Quotes
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
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You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'
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When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work.
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In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.
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Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.
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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.
