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“When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.”

People Want Wanted Pieces Want Me Spotlight

“In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.”

America Young Pieces Heard South Heroic Misunderstanding Symphony Conductor South America

Author:Kurt Masur

“The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.”

Firsts Felt Teacher Pieces Messages Add Devoted

Author:Kurt Masur

“Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.”

Ifs Knows Ideas Play Beautiful Clear Pieces Orchestra

Author:Kurt Masur

“Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.”

Giving Feels Too Much Pieces Trouble Advice Criticism Exceed Provinces

Author:Lord Mountbatten

“I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.”

People Trying I Can Play Fun Pieces Areas Baseball Having Fun Scream

Author:Pedro Martinez

“There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.”

Able Differences Pieces Connections Bases Collectors Admirer

Author:Richard MacDonald

“I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.”

Kind Littles Watches Pieces Cutting Tvs Horror Vampire Interviews Yuck

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.”

People Different Moments Opportunity Decision Pieces Style Design Directors Productions Obsessed Visuals Different Peoples Different Styles Production Design

Author:B. J. Novak

“Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.”

Artist Pieces Critique

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.”

Important President Pieces Security Miles Secure Borders Barriers Construction Legislation Puzzles Fence President Bush Signatures Border Security

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.”

Lasts Actors Pieces Involved Conversation Tools Productions Puzzles

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!”

Thinking Two Stuff Pieces Modern Periods Contemporary Australia Corsets

Author:Frances O'Connor

“Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.”

Humans Government Given Difficult Support Pieces Imagine Particular Dignity Bills Human Life Ministers Brown Prime Legislation Prime Minister Sanctity

Author:Keith O'Brien

“I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Might Animal Pieces Cutting Horrible Get Away Fur Vintage

Author:Kelly Osbourne

“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

“I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.”

Writing Reason Moving Pieces Writing Music

Author:Leo Ornstein

“No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.”

Thinking Want Writing Persons Pieces Urges

Author:Leo Ornstein

“I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing Trying Seems Pieces Influence Particular Degrees Determine Admire Input Counterproductive

Author:Kevin Powers

“School's out forever, school's been blown to pieces.”

School Education Forever Pieces

Author:Alice Cooper

“Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve. Indeed, mathematics itself may be built on small islands of truth comprising the pieces of mathematics that can be validated by relatively short proofs. All else is speculation.”

“Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.”

Source: The Jews

“The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.”

Pieces Theory Blind Rely Plausible

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.”

Knows Feels Happens Choices Roles Pieces Where You Are Single Women

Author:Sarah Paulson

“Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.”

Ifs Years Care Fall Pieces Don't Care I Don't Care Museums Falling Apart

Author:Sigmar Polke

“Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.”

Writing Wells Two Pieces Wife Wounds Magazines Teenager Two Things Fluffy Being A Teenager

Author:Ann Patchett

“At the beginning of 'The Hills,' I couldn't watch myself because I'm very critical and would pick myself to pieces. But with movies I feel like it's different because you're playing a character. So it's like watching yourself but not watching yourself.”

Feels Different Character Watches Pieces Picks Critical Hills

Author:Audrina Patridge

“But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop.”

I Can Different Hard Pieces Bread One Piece Czechoslovakia

Author:Daniela Pestova

“The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of being able to interview the victim. You had to piece together the circumstances surrounding the crime from witnesses and other evidence. 'SVU' is much more immediate in that you can talk to the victim.”

Sometimes Able Together Differences Cases Pieces Crime Cold Circumstances Evidence Advantage Victim Decades Witness Interviews Cold Case

Author:Danny Pino

“Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways.”

People Way Stills Two Different Support Pieces Ready Research Different Ways Boards Maintenance Scientific Research

Author:John L. Phillips

“I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.”

Want Feels Hard Sports Pieces Talent Hard Work Competing Equipment

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!”

Trying Self Together Values Pieces Taught Passages Guitarist Self Taught

Author:Sam Palladio

“Time Rolls On' is my most political piece so far. It's not on my album because people didn't support it.”

People Political Support Pieces Albums

Author:Sean Paul

“I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.”

Knows Two Next Pieces Week Security Projects Terrorist Posts Pigs Ongoing Two Weeks Homeland Terrorist Attacks Unprepared Homeland Security

Author:Sally Quinn

“Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.”

Moments Helping Lasts Interesting Pieces Week Advice Style Depends Husband Laura

Author:Sally Quinn

“I think it's cooler when girls have favorite pieces of clothing rather than an entirely new wardrobe every few months.”

Thinking Girl Pieces Months Clothings Wardrobe

Author:Cameron Russell

“I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.”

Men Feels Real Girl Pieces Actresses Fabulous Real Girl

Author:Kelly Reilly

“Is that what I've become, a piece of meat?”

Pieces Meat

Author:Brad Renfro

“If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.”

Ifs Rooms Practice Audience Pieces Fronts Prove Tape Living Room

Author:Dave Van Ronk

“I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.”

Years Used Stars Pieces Picks Woods Bark Stoves Kindling

Author:Jerry Reed

“Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings.”

Heart Littles Pieces Fallen Patches Alabama Slipping Dixie

Author:John Shelton Reed

“I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.”

Book Kids Fun Pieces Expected Plenty Bored Having Fun Hanging Out Labs Just Have Fun

Author:Mary Roach

“Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.”

Ifs Ideas Fiction Pieces Sea Compelling Caves Secluded

Author:Ron Rash

“Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.”

Jobs Difficult Pieces Happened Politician Legislation Catchy Slapping Acronyms Jumpstart

Author:Steven Rattner

“The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.”

Knows Walks Pieces Bars Best Things Apartment Cartoonist

Author:Ted Rall

“We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.”

Believe Book Reading Pieces Never Expect

Author:Ali Smith

“My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.”

Self Mother Term Pieces Accepted Savages

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.”

Kind Causes Pieces Charity Stores Terrific Thrift Good Causes One Of A Kind

Author:Lara Spencer

“Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.”

Thinking Wells Littles Character Bits Pieces Little Bit Bits And Pieces

Author:Phyllis Smith

“When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.”

Way Feels Long I Can Language Sound Emotion Pieces Emotional Flow Focused Finished Rhythm

Author:Taiye Selasi

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