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Sergei Prokofiev

"It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new at the same time. That was the kind of symphony I wanted to write: a symphony in the classical style. And when I saw that my idea was beginning to work, I called it the Classical Symphony."

Source : "Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences". Book edited by S. Shlifstein and translated by Rose Prokofieva, p. 46; from the "Autobiography", 1960.

Sergei Prokofiev

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“I still skate occasionally but last time I did, at our show in Hanford, I did a 360 frontside varial over our rolled-up banner and broke every damn bone in my body. Ok, I only broke one bone. Well, I didn't break any bones, but I could have!”
“I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.”
“If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to their ankles.”
“It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.”
“If you can't get a miracle, become one.”

Source : Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.17, WaterBrook
“There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.”
“The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.”
“A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.”

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