Classical Quotes
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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
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Originality now is rare in the cinema and it isn`t worth striving for because most work that does this is egocentric and pretentious. What is most enjoyable about the cinema is simply working with a language that is classical in the sense that the image i...
Wim Wenders
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There`s a feeling of enrichment and challenge when it comes to doing a play, and especially doing, you know, a classical play or a tragic play. In a way, it works a different set of muscles, I guess. But I do love it, and I love great writing, whatever it...
Paul Rudd
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They wanted me to be, you know, whatever..a little Japanese girl with tiny little fingers who played Rachmaninoff. I could only play Mozart very slowly, so whatever, I had to leave. So I was basically thrown out of the classical world for being a renegade...
Rufus Wainwright
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In high school I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play and I got the lead. And she helped me to get into a conservatory, with a scholarship ...
Forest Whitaker
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The Classical principle is not that everybody comes away happy; but that everybody comes out thinking, which is a validation of ourselves as human beings, as opposed to the animals that go to a rave or a hip-hop concert, and just dance away in some kind o...
Robert Beltran
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I loved the band Traffic for their way of creating a musical universe without these boundaries, because whether it`s country, pop, gospel, heavy metal or classical music, it`s all a single language, a code.
Sting
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I`m not a well-trained actor in the classical sense but what I think I have going for me is a sense of honesty about my work.
Ronny Cox
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I am many things. I can be quite mad, and young, but I`m not the kind of person who goes out to nightclubs and goes crazy. I am more like lying on my bed and listening to classical music to relax.
Eva Green
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When I`m doing classical theater, I feel engaged and all pistons running and like I`m on new territory, because the size of it is so much bigger and the scope so much broader. - to Variety (05/1999)
Liev Schreiber
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Classical ballet is physically challenging. You don`t have any control over your career. You have to take instruction. You can`t talk back. You can`t have an opinion. You have to have great discipline and endurance. You have to tolerate pain. If you don`t...
Neve Campbell
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[On her childhood in South Carolina]: We were very rich, culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody`s house. A classical music group would come over and we`d have dinner. There were thirty people (parents and...
Kristin Davis
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When I`m 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.
Chris Martin
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I`m not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren`t straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
Sylvester Stallone
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Many people don`t realize that it`s in what you think are the limitations of a certain form that you can often find your own rhythm and space. I would never be able to do what I`m doing in a classical production, because in a classical staging, while you ...
Isabelle Huppert
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Many people don`t realize that it`s in what you think are the limitations of a certain form that you can often find your own rhythm and space. I would never be able to do what I`m doing in a classical production, because in a classical staging, while you ...
Isabelle Huppert
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When you do classical breeding, you cluster for hundreds of genes in a plant that allow it to be resistant to a particular insect.
Ali Rahnema
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When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.
Alicia Keys
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When I was studying... there weren`t any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
Nina Simone
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When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
Henry Flynt
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What`s the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it`s not that way.
Skeet Ulrich
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What`s different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That`s what makes it both powerful and exciting.
Ali Rahnema
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We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don`t like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
Alain Bauer
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Usually I have a problem with my skis or with my mind. My biggest wish was to get the gold medal in the 10K classical. I got it. It`s mine!
Asako Miyata
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that`s not what I play. I play black classical music.
Nina Simone
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To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you`re 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.
Jennifer Garner
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Though I`m not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.
Fran Drescher
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This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.
Alan Justad
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There`s really no place for us at radio. The feeling is that we`re too `classical` for pop stations, and too `pop` for classical stations.
David Miller
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There`s really no place for us at radio. The feeling is that we`re too `classical` for pop stations, and too `pop` for classical stations.
David Miller
