Marian McPartland Quotes
Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
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Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
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I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.
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What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year for dramatic competition, so you know when you're going to Sundance that you're going to see top-quality projects.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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The Dark Satirist, like the Dark Knight - that could be a good name for a superhero.
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I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.
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The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
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The most creative person is not the person who can come up with the best idea; it's the one who can take that group of things on the table and assemble them in the greatest multiple of unique ways.
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A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.
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Nam qui hominem, quamuis ob merita damnatum, in conspectu suo iugulari pro uoluptate computat, conscientiam suam polluit, tam scilicet, quam si homicidii, quod fit occulte, spectator et particeps fiat.
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I have everything I want. I really can't think of any ambitions or things to strive for. I don't want to leave the house, I'm happy at home, I really am. I am.
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She certainly had a little syllogism in her head as to the Duke ruling the borough, the Duke's wife ruling the Duke, and therefore the Duke's wife ruling the borough; but she did not think it prudent to utter this on the present occasion.
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With impassive gaze, Michael, prince of warriors, measured the extent of the disaster, and his keen intelligence penetrated its causes. The armies of the living God had taken the offensive, but by one of those fatalities in war which disconcert the plans of the greatest captains, the enemy had also taken the offensive, and the effect was evident.
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For me, church was about not only religion but about community. A woman in my grandmother's church helped pay for my SAT classes when I was in high school and drove me there every week.
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One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
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This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage.
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Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
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Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
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My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.
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I'm more interested in talking about what I do. And I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker. But it's true: If you know something about a person outside of the movie that is really repulsive to you, it's hard to shake. So I prefer to do my speaking through the work. I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through these characters. The other stuff is personal and too easy to trivialize out of context.
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Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.
