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Nadia Boulanger Quotes

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Nadia Boulanger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: french
Birth: September 16, 1887 - October 22, 1979

Topics

Work Great Liberty Obedience Out

Two people making a beat is really like one person making a beat. But you have another person's brain. So what might sound good to you, they could flip it a different way. It's really a collaborative effort, really.

Good Effort People Brain You Person

When I got to 40, I was happy. Now I can wear what I like, listen to what I like, don't have to try and be cool. I'm someone's dad and it doesn't matter any more. That's an enormous freedom.

Freedom Happy Cool Someone I Can

I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs.

Know Mythology Geek About Marc

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless.

Believe Innocent Apology Nation Us

People have this vision of me as a conservative person, but I'm actually quite adventurous.

Vision People Me Person Conservative

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Music Teacher Light Shadow I Am

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

World Camera You Look Hollywood Up

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

Comedy Tradition Doing Kind Two

We sometimes get so caught up in one or another aspect of the teaching, we forget that if a person hasn't been introduced to Christ, if a person hasn't embraced the risen Lord and the church that's an expression of that experience, what we're saying just sounds like a bunch of rules or negative statements limiting their personal freedom.

Freedom Experience Saying Negative

My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.

Mother Desert She Always English

I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.

Write Reports Just Our About

As a younger person, I was obsessed with Ray Bradbury, and I think his stories did more to shape me as a storyteller than anybody else - even though, when I read them now, a lot of them seem overly sentimental. But that's probably the writer that I've thought about the most, even though I don't necessarily like a lot of his work.

Work Me Think Thought Person Now

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