Ignacy Jan Paderewski Quotes
True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
Laura Dern -
What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
Eddie Redmayne -
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
Nadia Comaneci -
I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
Ilana Glazer -
Theater dates very quickly.
Fiona Shaw
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
Yair Lapid -
The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
T. E. Lawrence -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
Barry Ritholtz -
One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
Natalie Morales -
We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
Camilla Lackberg -
Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
Edgar Wright -
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
Rafael Nadal -
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
Manuel Puig -
A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil.
Jim Costa -
Up until today evil has lured goodness into evil, but goodness has not been able to lure evil into goodness. This may be the reason why up to today Christianity has not been able to boldly fulfill the Will of God.
Sun Myung Moon -
When I get back with band, the lights, and the whole production, that's me with the full artillery. A quick radio performance keeps me sharp for the big show.
Andy Grammer -
Success can not be administrated.
Arleigh Burke -
True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski