Benjamin Britten Quotes

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Benjamin Britten

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 22, 1913 - December 4, 1976

Topics

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Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

Joanne Harris

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I have always worked hard, and seeing so many Icelanders make tremendous efforts to cope with difficult tasks and decisions inspires me.

Johanna Siguroardottir

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I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.

Jenny Slate

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Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

John Cusack

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I like to just make things... If I have the TV on, I'm not just going to sit there. I want to do something with my hands; I've always got a project. Or I get a small group of people over, and I say, 'Let's make these things today.'

Amy Sedaris

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U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and also designed so that we will never permanently reach it. We likely would just sit around and eat sweet and fatty foods all day, and that is simply not in the interest of evolution.

Stefan Sagmeister

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Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Rosalind Russell

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I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions.

Robert Winston

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Chelsea and Arsenal tried to sign me when I was 13, 14.

Romelu Lukaku

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Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.

Mary Gaitskill

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When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

Diego Luna

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I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

David Simon

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