Ned Rorem Quotes
Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.
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The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
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Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.
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I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.
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Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.
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You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services will not be able to be provided without e-government services.
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Evolution is more grounded in my experience than angels.
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I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.
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The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.
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These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.
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And hope is like love... a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.
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I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.
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When you're a kid that's all you want to do, go out and play football.
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The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
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I'm not Madonna-famous and wouldn't want to be.
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Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
