John Tavener Quotes

The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.

John Tavener

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 28, 1944 - November 12, 2013

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I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.

John Cleese

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I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!

Amanda Righetti

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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

Sigmund Freud

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How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. 'The Awful Aunty' took me 10 days.

Tony Ross

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I have a lot of people judging my every move. It's important for me to not let it rule my life.

Lourdes Leon

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I've definitely had the experience where I was pursuing someone for a long time that I just obviously did not connect with, so I was always, kind of altering myself for her, But then you realize it's just not worth it. What's the point?

Logan Lerman

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After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

Lloyd Alexander

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It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

Judi Dench

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I love layering with great fitting jackets.

Sushant Singh Rajput

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Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

Swami Sivananda

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I just don't like boring myself. That's one of the main reasons I did 'Ice Age' - because I'd never done something like this before.

Peter Dinklage

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Since the break-up of the 1990s, Russia has not had winter sports facilities. All the winter sport venues were effectively located in countries that are no longer part of the federation. There is a strong argument for saying Sochi's legacy will be this country will have winter sports facilities it did not have before.

Sebastian Coe

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