Leo Ornstein Quotes
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
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The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
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Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.
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I always put myself second - I like to make others happy.
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Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.
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We exchanged a meaning glance. Or, rather, two meaning glances, I giving him one and he giving me the other.
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The challenge that I set for myself was to see whether or not plot and structure could coexist, and why it was that we had to always privilege one above the other.
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'You Can Count On Me' took 20 days to shoot, and we had 50 days to shoot 'Margaret.'
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You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing.
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Drugs won't enhance your performance.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
