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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We were descended from royalty.
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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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When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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My children are grown now, they are more independent.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
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The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.
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I want you to laugh and cry. That's what I do.
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The only thing that made its way to actually happen for me was acting. I love it, and I love being on set. I love being in rehearsal for things and telling stories. It's what I feel I am supposed to be doing.
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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.
