Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.
Alicia Witt
Recitation: by Male by Female
When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.
Jim Gaffigan
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The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.
John Lurie
TimeSculptureUpRoomSomewhere
It is important to realize that the process of 'fostering' a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.
Angela Duckworth
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Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.
Amelie Mauresmo
MeToughYouKnowNowFirst
I guess you could say it's one of the great equalizers: that it just feels good to be bad.
St. Lucia
GoodGreatYouBadSayJust
I grew up with a lot of people whose whole prime mover was dad rage. I never really had it - it always seemed so empty. It always seemed to be masking something else, which was really their own lack of initiative.
Robert Downey, Jr.
PeopleInitiativeNeverRageEmpty
Death by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that's in the back of my mind a bit.
Robert Englund
TravelDeathMindMeYouBack
I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.
Tom Cole
EndDebateTaxAgainstPeriod
We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal.
Michael Pollan
FoodEndLongInformationNowEat
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift
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I hope that one day, the world gets to a place where you don't need to politicize your sexuality any more than someone needs to politicize their race - that we can just act and we can exist in this Zeitgeist, telling stories about one another.
Jordan Gavaris
HopeDayWorldSomeoneYouPlace
One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.
Phil Hartman
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