Marcello Giordani Quotes
I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.Marcello Giordani
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
A. S. Byatt -
Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
Barry Schwartz -
MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
Dan Fogelberg -
Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
Warren Spector -
I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
Gabrielle Giffords
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
Rand Paul -
I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
Sam Raimi -
My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
Sam Harris -
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
Dan Brown -
I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
Gabriel Macht -
We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
Nancy Pelosi
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People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'
Gary Vaynerchuk -
I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
Rachel Platten -
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis -
If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
Nancy Kress -
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
Sallust -
I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
Yayoi Kusama
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I've always loved movies, so I tried to get into an acting school. I saw an ad for the Oscar school on the back of 'The Irish Times,' and I went along for an audition, very pragmatically, to see if I could do it or not.
Liam Cunningham -
Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.
John Rhys-Davies -
I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
Imelda May -
The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.
Alphonsus Liguori -
I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.
Marcello Giordani