Claude Debussy Quotes
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'
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To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
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Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.
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The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death.
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You see how even an illness can be romanticized. Tuberculosis got the treatment: Keats, the Lady of the Camellias, the foggy dew, and so on. We must make romantic literature out of cancer - can you imagine that?
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To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.
