Alan Hovhaness Quotes
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
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I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.
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Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.
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You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.
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I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
