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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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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'And we jolly green giants cuz we smoke so much broccoli'
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Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.
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People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now.
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Under promise and over deliver. People will be pleasantly surprised that you gave more than they expected. And remember that there is always room for us to be better and do better. That's what I am calling for. Not just everybody else - myself, too.
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In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.
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For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write!
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In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
