John Corigliano Quotes

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

John Corigliano

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GreatWinThinkAwardYouBecome

Unless 'Wii Fit' stops acting like a mean girl, it's over between us forever.

Jen Lancaster

GirlActingMeanOverForeverUs

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.

Matthew Barney

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The first time I read 'Leftovers,' I didn't get it at all.

Ann Dowd

TimeFirst TimeFirstLeftoversGet

If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

Michael Arad

LiveNew YorkNewIsraelGoingHad

I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.

Sienna Miller

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Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.

Tori Amos

WorldNowNeedRightHalfDepressed

My favorite bands are the Allman Brothers and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Ron White

RedHotChiliFavoriteBrothers

My bread and croissants wouldn't win a prize! I'm not an expert in yeast cookery.

Mary Berry

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It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.

Monica Johnson

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Empowerment is not about doing the same thing the same way in the same environment. It's about building the man and the woman and doing so with a view to creating better citizens and, by extension, better patriots in this society of ours.

Anthony Carmona

WomanManBuildingSocietyBetter

The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

TruthHappyWriteThingsRational

Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative.

Wole Soyinka

CapitalismFaceSeeingWantAfrica

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