Daniel Breaker Quotes
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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Accept loss forever.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!
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We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order to want to change it.
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I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with my kids.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
