Louis Kronenberger Quotes
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.
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I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
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It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.
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My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book.
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A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.
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I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
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Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
