Ella Leya Quotes
Something flickered in the distance, dressing the darkness in a soft veil of blue. Out of the blue came an explosion of sounds followed by the seamlessly expressed melancholy of Chopin’s “Ballade no. 1.
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
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Photography is an accident.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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But do you know what struck me, apart from Nancy’s vibrant self-pity, which she had the nerve to pretend was grief?
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When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.
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I do take for granted, probably, the fact that I grew up in New York City, one of the most liberal places on earth, with bleeding-heart, liberal parents who took me to see 'Rent' and Terrence McNally plays from a very young age.
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'Programming' is a four-letter word.
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Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?
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Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.
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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
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There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.
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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
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...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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Getting started with something new was always the scariest part. The rest was just confidence and practice.
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Something flickered in the distance, dressing the darkness in a soft veil of blue. Out of the blue came an explosion of sounds followed by the seamlessly expressed melancholy of Chopin’s “Ballade no. 1.
