George Szell Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like 'Dr. Who', 'The Goodies', and 'Get Smart.'
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.
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Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
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Clothes to me aren’t sexy. Like, a dress isn’t sexy. Maybe the girl who wears it is sexy.
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America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help-because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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When the Lord of the Wedding Rings held his no-questions-asked press conference, he said he was sorely 'troubled.' At last, I thought, an admission. But no, he wasn't talking about his mental condition.
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Never give a sucker an even break.
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Our songs all carry the same way.
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In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
