Antonin Dvorak Quotes
I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
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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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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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I've been training quite hard.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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Self-care is the non-negotiable. That's the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.
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One part is absorbed in the blood to compensate for the losses that are constantly taking place through respiration and perspiration, and all the material that Nature cannot use is rejected in the form of excrement.
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International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.
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It's just great when my job makes me more curious.
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Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.
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I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.
