Alan Hovhaness Quotes
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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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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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.
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I believe in God the way my dog does.
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I need instant gratification.
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.
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I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
