Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Quotes
I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
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Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.
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The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.
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My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I'm very aware of what it takes to keep a modern home running and how we can simplify.
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'Elizabethtown' was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it. It's not the biggest group of people ever, but I still really believe in 'Elizabethtown.' It wasn't, like, a savage blow.
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I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest.
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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
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Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.
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To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.
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The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.
