Olivier Messiaen Quotes
It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
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Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.
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I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
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'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.
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I don't know if I'm really the fastest. It doesn't matter.
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Every child has to raise itself.
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I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.
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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
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It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as firmly believed by me as ever; and through persecutions have attended, and the rage and malice of men been heaped upon me, I feel equally as firm in the great and glorious cause as when first I received my mission from the holy messenger.
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I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet
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I really like how the sixth book is going. A lot happens in the sixth book and a lot of questions are answered. I really have a sense that we are nearly there and it is time for answers, not more questions and clues, although obviously there are a few clues as I am not quite finished yet.
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School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.
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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
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Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.
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I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic than magazine illustration - since it is entirely creative. An illustrator works with camera and models; a comic artist begins with a white sheet of paper and dreams up his own business - he is playwright, director, editor and artist at once.
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“Sir Mark Turner," he said. "I speak with the tongues of a thousand angels. Butterflies follow me wherever I go. Birds sing when I take a breath.
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It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.
