Rufus Wainwright Quotes

For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.

Rufus Wainwright

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I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.

Jencarlos Canela

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In the year of 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life.

John Coltrane

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For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.

Max von Laue

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Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

Matthew McConaughey

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So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

Miroslav Vitous

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You see Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson, what they go through, and dude, that's not as exciting as it looks.

Chris Pine

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I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more.

Colm Toibin

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I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

Bob Etheridge

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Being on the road, I think, is the most organised part of my life. You know where you have to be every day; you know what your job is every day. I crave that tiny bit of stability, which anyone else would think is the most unstable way of living, ever.

Alison Mosshart

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For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.

Sela Ward

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One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

Scarlett Thomas

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If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

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