Ignacy Jan Paderewski Quotes
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
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Di voce in voce e d'una in altra orecchiaIl grido e 'l bando per la terra scorse.
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All the diamonds in this worldThat mean anything to meAre conjured upby wind and sunlight sparkling on the seaI ran aground in a harbor townLost the taste for being freeThank God he sent some gull chased shipTo carry me to sea...
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Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.
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I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.
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No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find.
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Art must be a slow and normal evolution.
