Arnold Schoenberg Quotes
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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.
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I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don't need fanfare. You don't need to go out to expensive restaurants.
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All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
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Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.
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I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
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I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.
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We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.
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My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.
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We no longer seek the 'cause' of events in the nature of a single isolated object, but in the relationship between an object and its surroundings.
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The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then: "Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.
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'My works are 12-tone compositions, not 12-tone compositions
