Alma Gluck Quotes
The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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If Real want me, they will call me one day, and, if not, no problem. I live my life and am optimistic about the future.
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I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
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It is not hard to see why the Eastern holistic perspective made scientific progress so difficult. It denies the intuition that one can study the parts of the world in isolation from the rest-that one can analyze the world...
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A hug is the perfect gift, one size fits all, everyone likes them and no-one cares if it is given back.
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The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.
