Georges Bizet Quotes

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Georges Bizet

• Writing
• Adultery
• Suppress

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• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  

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• I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

  

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• I don't know what's on the other side.

  

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• These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

  

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• As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.

  

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• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

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• Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

  

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• I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

  

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• I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.

  

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• Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

  

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• I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.

  

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• There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.

  

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• Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

  

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• My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.

  

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• Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

  

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• I love Justice Marshall. He did an enormous amount for me. But if you confirm me to this position, you will get Justice Kagan. You won't get Justice Marshall, and that's an important thing.

  

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• On YouTube, when you have a big viral success with a song that isn't your own, the natural inclination for most YouTubers is to keep doing that. What you really should do is show people that you actually have substance and can write your own music.

  

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• I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.

  

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• With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

  

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• There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

  

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• You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.

  

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• I'm still a fanboy geek. I always will be. In many ways, if my work still resonates with the audience, it's because I'm still writing from the point of view of the fan, so I'm geeked out constantly.

  

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• It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.

  

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• As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

  

  Georges Bizet
  • Writing
  • Adultery
  • Suppress