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Samuel Barber Quotes

I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Story Old Years Piano Began Usual

If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.

Love People American Matter Nation

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

Jennifer Gilmore

Experience War Poverty Immigrant

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.

Community Buildings More Academic

I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work, it's a way of controlling all that.

Work Creative Mind Mad Way Well

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

Mignon McLaughlin

Age Moment Youth Know Become Always

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

Will Decide Something Consistent

It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.

Good Attention Others Emotional

Every writer should be able to write anything if you do the research and you're sensitive enough to ask the questions.

Courtney A. Kemp

Research Questions Enough You Write

This sense in which so much of who we are doesn't break the surface - our knowability to one another is always something I like to explore.

Explore Always Break Something Sense

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

Arthur C. Brooks

Life Free Wealth Satisfaction Just

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

Anthony Hopkins

Feel Actor Embarrassed Being Stuff

People may have found it difficult to approach me, and I realised it and have worked on it. I used to be socially shy. Now I have become a social animal. I go out, meet and interact with people.

Animal People Me Go Meet Become

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