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Rufus Wainwright Quotes

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

Rufus Wainwright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: July 22, 1973

Topics

Music Time Myself Better Know Try

The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and be kind to yourself. And do the work to cultivate who you are and what your point of view is. Don't try to be like anybody else. That's what will make you an interesting artist.

Jessie Mueller

Work Business Be Kind Trust Yourself

When I speak of diversity, I don't mean replacement of white comics. I don't mean acceptance by white comics. We comics who weren't born into the white guy paradigm of 'funny' don't need a handout. We don't need a PC push. We don't need 'a look.'

Amanda Seales

Funny Acceptance Diversity Speak

I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia it was. The most beautiful landscapes I had seen in Asia were Sri Lanka and Bali.

Stefan Sagmeister

Nature Beautiful Myself New York New

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

Stefan Zweig

Leadership Enthusiasm Others Convince

Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this dispute from the ivory tower into day-to-day decision-making. Is it right to write? The publishing industry is slowly beginning to commit to using sustainably harvested trees.

Tristram Stuart

Beginning Value Environmental Trees

It was a dream come true, as in my first film, I have Rajkumar Hirani as the producer and Madhavan as my co-star. Who can get a better role than this?

Ritika Singh

Better Dream True First Producer

Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films.

Mike Birbiglia

Short Show Like Short Films Much

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Strength Decision Excellence Man

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

Clare Boothe Luce

Work Good Decision Day Progress Man

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

Archie Shepp

Music Important Audience Yes Call

I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.

Allison Mack

Consistency Year Three Out Show TV

Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.

Alicia Keys

People Me Free Feel You Want