Leo Kottke Quotes
It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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Yes, a Major would mean so much to me but I'm a great believer that if you work hard and in the right way, you will get what you deserve.
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Pliny had no theoretical opinions of his own concerning changes of the earth's surface... But his enumeration of the new islands which had been formed in the Mediterranean, and of other convulsions, shows that the ancients had not been inattentive observers of the changes which had taken place on the earth within the memory of man.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.
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I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
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It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.
