Caroline Buchanan Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.
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I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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Music fills the infinite between two souls.
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When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.
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I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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I can't say that there are "things" that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. Those are thoughts that take me beyond myself; that remind me that there's a bigger game going on on this planet than simply my own existence; that love works miracles, and how much we need them at certain moment.
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Any race, I'm always going for the top step on the podium.
