Eli Siegel Quotes
There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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I am not a madman or a nut.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood.
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More than a quarter of mortgage borrowers are underwater, and 11 percent of all homes are vacant.
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Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.
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Christians get trees. Jews get bushes. To stay in good standing with the Tribe, you've got to refer to a Christmas tree as a Hanukkah bush.
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One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
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I think it's rare to get on a show that lasts.
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The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments.
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I've always got my eye on my deathbed.
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Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
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There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.
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As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.
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I try to go to concerts whenever I can, just because I love music.
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There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.
