Alexander Scriabin Quotes

Skryabin comes so close to the twelve-note system that it seems probable he would have taken it as the next logical step.

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• The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

  

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• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

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• With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.

  

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• When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

  

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• I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

  

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• There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.

  

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• A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

  

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• You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

  

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• At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.

  

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• The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.

  

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• Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

  

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• Yes, I always imagined living in other places.

  

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• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

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• When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.

  

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• Skryabin comes so close to the twelve-note system that it seems probable he would have taken it as the next logical step.

  

  Alexander Scriabin
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