Samuel Barber Quotes

I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.

Samuel Barber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 9, 1910 - January 23, 1981

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I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.

Jim Jeffords

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Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.

Megan Fox

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Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's watched as much. The same is true of 'Bambi,' 'Dumbo'... even, frankly, 'Toy Story,' which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995.

John Lasseter

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It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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In 1981, when he ran for governor, I confiscated the needlepoint belts of New Jersey's Tom Kean. It's a patrician look that is right for the Vineyard, Nantucket, Darien, Greenwich, Charleston and Savannah.

Roger Stone

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Inner improvements create outer ones.

Robin S. Sharma

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What worries me is that 'post-racial' America is not that different from the Americas that have preceded us, and it might not ever be.

Roxane Gay

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I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

Dino De Laurentiis

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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Dogen

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In the NBA, as in nowhere else in America, white people are utterly beholden to black people, and they're not about to let us off that easily. It's a kind of very mild payback for the last 500 years.

David Shields

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I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Brian Eno

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There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.

Poe Ballantine

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