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“I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.”

Thinking World Trying Has Beens Pieces Figures Complicated Hearing Listeners Terrific

Author:Leo Ornstein

“It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.”

Kind Has Beens Would Be Today Stars Pieces Impossible Tough Dramatic Verdict Newman

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have very much altered since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart.”

Source: Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant

“God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.”

Men World Has Beens Earth Heaven Pieces Player

Author:Honore de Balzac

“LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.”

Way Want Years Has Beens Seems Might Three Left Pieces Four Fields Type Loud Something New Vocal Touring Left Field

Author:Dave Grohl

“A piece of the miracle process has been reserved for each of us”

Has Beens Process Pieces Miracle Reserved

Author:Jim Rohn

“Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.”

Writing Years Has Beens Facts President Novel Pieces Wickedness Accused Crude Prophetic Futuristic Satirist Anti-american President Reagan

Book:Conversations with Philip Roth

Source: Conversations with Philip Roth

“Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.”

Firsts Has Beens Pieces Confusion Destroyed Avoidance

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks