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Igor Stravinsky Quotes

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

Igor Stravinsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: russian
Birth: June 17, 1882 - April 6, 1971

Topics

Music Why Always Like Piece Hear

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.

Think Name Feel Laugh Wish You

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.

Robert Benchley

Time Book Year New Dead Difficult

It's old news, me and my accent, but it always seems to make headlines.

Michelle Dockery

Me News Old Always Seems Headlines

How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?

Losing Short Talking Attention Lose

I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it is.

Love Singing End You Understand

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

Denzel Washington

Mother Light Child Door Sister Said

I didn't really think about going to another club; I wanted to be a Tottenham player and play at Tottenham.

Think Play Club Going Player Wanted

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

Chiaki Kuriyama

Learning Great Think Learn America

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

War Vietnam War Vietnam Happening

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth Impossible You Matter Whatever

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

Penelope Lively

Time Past Present Fiction Happens

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.

Patience Alone Food Travel I Am Me

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