I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
Many times, I left the prison thinking, 'I'm smart. I can make it. I won't get caught up again.' But you get… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
We have to start thinking of America as a family. We have to stop screeching screeching at each other, stop hurting each… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
More platform-sensitive generations will make distinctions between online and in-person intimacy, whereas fourteen-year-olds have very nuanced online selves and might embody their… — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart. And that's exactly what's pulling our country apart today. Because face it, folks,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I think that men think they need their man caves. They don't really do. They think they want them, and then the… — Chris D'Elia Copy Share Image
I am very annoyed about this issue. Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
I've always loved teaching acting. I think it helps me to kind of get back to basics. It's like a refresher course… — Alfred Molina Copy Share Image
I meditate, and when I do, Prince Harry appears in my subconscious and meditates with me. It's a little strange but I… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
"Don't let go!" he orders. Harper's hand is dry and soothing, while mine is sweaty with fear. We've never held hands before.… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I think the fitness of players is the key to success. I believe that there should be no place of unfit players… — Shahid Afridi Copy Share Image
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think after a big European game you're looking at four or five days. For two days afterwards I don't really do… — Ryan Giggs Copy Share Image
I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
People think what's in the US today is capitalism. It's not even close to capitalism. Capitalism doesn't have a central bank, capitalism… — Jeff Berwick Copy Share Image
I think what we want to do is - when we choreograph, when we design choreography, we try to take it from… — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
“It is natural to want to forget, Anna, when everyday is a brimful of sadness. But those souls also forgot those that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm an ex-Catholic priest. I have such a complex relationship to Catholicism. On the one hand, if I called myself a Catholic… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
If one has to conform to a certain taste, he/she might lose his/her own individuality and imagination. But if you don't really… — George Li Copy Share Image
I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He stops rocking the cage. "Oh, come on, Callie. It won't be fun if we don't rock it. In fact, the more… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
I think, in life, being nervous about something that's forthcoming is very helpful, whether it's an awards show or a family gathering… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
“We do not (on Holmes’s reasoning) permit the free expression of ideas because some individual may have the right one. No individual… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
Ornon said, "I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze,… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I think it crucial to recognize that you can't straightforwardly "adapt" Douglas Adams. Douglas's genius was uniquely his own. What I've tried… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
Well, it's not all Americans. But I understand those polls. But as a result of that, that's not going to change my… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
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