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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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
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I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
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Half simpleton, half God.
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Money money money money money money money money money. Let no one say it has no place in a love story. It has a particular place. It is something on the right shelf.
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I know two kinds of audience only – one coughing, and one not coughing.
