Clara Schumann Quotes
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.
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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.
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I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations movie together and we were complaining about what a mediocre film experience it was. DeNiro showed up on set and all of a sudden the director got better, the director of photography got better - everybody got more interested and excited. DeNiro isn't waiting for other people to create the environment that he wants, he brings it along with him.
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The only way really to influence countries, in terms of poverty, is to get them to change their policies and get them to understand what the issues are.
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In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
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The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."
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I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
