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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I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.
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Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights, drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.
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The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time.
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I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.
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In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
