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Olivier Messiaen Quotes

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

Olivier Messiaen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: french
Birth: December 10, 1908 - April 27, 1992

Topics

Life God Faith Words My Life Drama

Being on the ground in Mongolia and traveling with the horse culture and sleeping in yurts, I was able to pick up a lot of detail. But I brought in advisors to work with our horse master to make sure the fighting strategies both on the Chinese and Mongolian sides were very accurate.

Work Culture Detail Fighting Horse

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

Life Character Personality Yourself

I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.

Best Book Rules Civility Retire

I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage, I'm that confident and that cocky because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.

Life Confidence Truth Mistake People

Most people do not pay attention to the publisher's imprint on a given book.

People Book Attention Pay Attention

I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny.

Michael Morpurgo

Work God Destiny Story Play Become

I've had some pretty awful jobs that I don't miss, like working on a nightclub door, or compiling VIP lists at 3 A.M. in the morning, but sometimes it's just got to be done.

Morning Door Done Sometimes Pretty

With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.

Love Good World Story Search You

I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.

Christine Quinn

Better Want Different Chris

To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.

Coretta Scott King

Action Discrimination Done Nothing

You should see me without makeup.

Me Makeup You See Without Should

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

Alfred de Musset

Understand Always Things English

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