Ned Rorem Quotes
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.
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The way theater can bring people together is so powerful.
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We always wish for money, we always wish for fame. We think we have the answers, some things ain't never gonna change.
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Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
