Artur Schnabel Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
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I am always fascinated by India.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.
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I never had time to dream about being anyone else.
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The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.
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I've always had an interest in the fashion side of pop culture.
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My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.
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Music was my first love, but it was difficult for me. It's something that I really love, but I didn't feel that I was so good at it. I can sing well, but I'm not a great singer. When I sing, I don't feel I'm expressing all the emotions.
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I know two kinds of audience only – one coughing, and one not coughing.
