Andres Segovia Quotes
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.
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I think if you come straight on honest as much as you can, eventually that turns into success. Maybe not as quick as you'd like.
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Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.
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Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
