Claron McFadden Quotes
The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel.
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We don't have to worry about, you know, what people are saying on the side or about their affection for the president or - we don't have those problems and we don't have the reinvention convention.
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When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.
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Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.
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In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland.
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The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel.
