Artur Schnabel Quotes
Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
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Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.
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The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt this was not a bad thing: we were entirely among ourselves. A small Jewish republic...
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.
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Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.
