Alfred Brendel Quotes
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
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Being beautiful isn't everything... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.
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I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'
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Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
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Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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The Church owns property, needs income, employs men, works on human material, and banks on its moral prestige. Its present efficiency and future standing are bound up for weal or woe with the social welfare of the people and with the outcome of the present struggle.
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Here in Florida … we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland - the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.
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It is the weak man who urges compromise-never the strong man.
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You shouldn't kiss me like thisUnless you mean it like thatCause I'll just close my eyesAnd I won't know where I'm at.We'll get lost on this dance floor,Spinnin' aroundAnd aroundAnd aroundAnd around.
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I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it. I just make it first and then it becomes much clearer to me why.
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Time to be the sun and send forth flesh to heal the bones of time.
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I've always been someone who has been very driven. I think my circumstances, how I grew up, hard work and work ethic are absolutely vital to any success that people might have, regardless of what they might be doing.
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I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.
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I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise... It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.
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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.
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The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
