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Hugo von Hofmannsthal Quotes

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: austrian
Birth: February 1, 1874 - July 15, 1929

Topics

Grow Mature More Connect Separate

I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence.

Time Romantic Ideas Language Fast

Nobody gets to the top without failing.

Nobody Top Without Failing Gets

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Power Say Vocation Suspicious Least

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

Stephen Sondheim

Work People Me Opinion Stage Seen

My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.

Mother Blue College Me Think Brand

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

Michael Rapaport

Father New York City Me Late Play

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

Time Knew Wanted Direct By The Time

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Science Intelligence Thought Will

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

Jose Maria Aznar

Best Strategy Defend Conviction West

My family came from Ecuador.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Work Perception Literature Enjoy You

Acting, as a child, I remember being lots of fun. I know it must have been very stressful on my parents, since auditions were unpredictable, and they both worked full time jobs.

Time Fun Child Parents Remember

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