Leo Ornstein Quotes

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.

Leo Ornstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 2, 1892 - February 24, 2002

Topics

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I've tried to get cute - and I don't mind saying tried to be cute - at the quarterback spot.

Jerry Jones

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I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.

John Grisham

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My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Merton Miller

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I don't keep a Bucket List. I'm open to anything.

John Scalzi

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I don't have one favourite band. I like everything.

Sidney Crosby

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There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

Tom Lehman

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When movement isn't enough, you dance, or when speaking isn't enough, you sing. When it's organic, and it's earned like that in a musical, that's when it works, and then there's nothing like it because it's this thing that takes you to a whole 'nother level, you know?

Rob Marshall

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Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

Louis Leterrier

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A North Korea that has the capability to use a nuclear weapon that can reach an American city or those of an ally poses a grave challenge as the U.S. seeks to preserve peace and stability in the region.

Lois Frankel

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As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.

Bobby Sherman

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You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.

Anne Enright

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Without Kissinger's work in the Middle East, with Sadat especially, I doubt if the Camp David Agreements five years later would have happened. His achievements over detente, the seeds of trust he sowed in a very distrustful and hostile Moscow, helped over a long period.

Alistair Horne

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