Ignacy Jan Paderewski Quotes
It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
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The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel.
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Since I started acting, I always or often find work takes precedence with me. And that is not necessarily a great rule for life.
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Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.
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Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.
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It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?
