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Tommy Ramone Quotes

I was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States in 1956. It was during the Hungarian Revolution when Russian tanks rolled into Budapest, and my family - me, my brother, and my parents - escaped over the border to Austria. We just took whatever we could carry. It was perilous, but we made it across.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: hungarian
Birth: January 29, 1949 - July 11, 2014

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Family Brother Parents Me Border

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

Change Alone People Sister Feel You

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

Johannes Brahms

Table Hard Leave Notes Superfluous

I worry about every newspaper. I worry about the financial undertaking, and I worry that somehow the loss of the sale of the paper version will affect their ability to have journalists and editors and producers. We really need those.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Financial Loss Worry Will Newspaper

When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it really opened my heart and made me feel like I could be a storyteller.

Relationship Heart Beautiful Me You

I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.

John James Audubon

Work Nature Failure Good Style Best

Moths are okay. Actually, moths don't bother me near as much as, say, spiders do.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Me Say Okay Bother Spiders Much

'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already had 60 pages of notes. I technically could have, but I don't think I was ready to. I needed him to be there and help me.

Me Think Help Ready My Own Wild

To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.

Today Time Dress Me Ship Better

We wanted to make a powerful cello sound in order to show to the world the possibilities of the cello and to use it in a different way than the classical way they are used to. We wanted to play something exciting, something crazy, something to draw younger generations to this great instrument.

Great Crazy World Powerful Play Way

I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.

Faith Time Ethics View Long

I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.

Great Feel Someone You New More

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Husband Look Like Says

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