Arthur Honegger Quotes
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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We in no way are naive to think that just because Russia and the United States agree to reduce their arsenals, that everyone else will fall in line.
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The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.
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When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'
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Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
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The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon – which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.
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I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.
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You are the most important thing in your life. Put yourself at the center of your life.
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In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.
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I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.
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Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.
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I think the city is the strongest social memory organ of humanity.
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You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them.
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I have trouble sleeping maybe one night a year. On that special night, I get up and read on the couch until I fall asleep.
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I've never been someone who dates all that much - I'm more of a serial monogamist.
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All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it or is trying to play along, that musician is using his or her 'ear' - the understanding and recognition of musical elements - for guidance.
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In general, if a couple cannot expand their original rules and boundaries to accommodate personal growth, the relationship disintegrates.
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Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
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The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
