Pablo Casals Quotes
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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Life is always at some turning point.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
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No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.
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For the most part, much of the legal world's attention has been focused on Donald Trump and his attacks on Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge who is currently presiding over the Trump University fraud cases in California. Trump somehow managed to offend surprising numbers of establishment Republicans.
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
