Michael Tippett Quotes

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

Michael Tippett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 2, 1905 - January 8, 1998

Topics

ImaginationMeReadingCountryLeft

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

Jim Jarmusch

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A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Jerzy Kosinski

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There are two kinds of people in the entertainment industry: Those that close deals and those that don't.

Jerry Heller

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Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

John Gray

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Running is my bedrock activity.

Ann Bancroft

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I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

Michael Connelly

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Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

John Podhoretz

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I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.

Tony Kushner

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The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.

Tom Shadyac

LoveTechnologySocietyDevelopment

The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.

Robert Casey

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Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

Russell Simmons

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I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

Michael Stuhlbarg

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