"Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that sort of Soviet Bloc period. And actually, a lot of composers in the Soviet Bloc - Gorecki's not the only one - are writing for the harpsichord as a sort of reaction against enforced Soviet realism, expressionism, sort of enforced modernism."

-- Mahan Esfahani

#Writing Quotes #Kind Quotes #Obsessed Quotes

“I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Today has definitely been better than yesterday. We are having to do a little bit of sweeping but it is generally not too bad and I am still really enjoying the roads - I love being here!”
“History is written by the winners.”
“Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.”
“If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.”
“The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.”
“I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?”
“I've always been called Lucky Louie. It's no mystery why.”

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