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“The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.”
Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
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“Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.”
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“I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.”
Source : Galen Beckett (2008). “The Magicians and Mrs. Quent”, p.310, Bantam
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“Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.”
Source : Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.96, Faber & Faber
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“Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.”
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“Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.”
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“O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle! See the couples advance - O, Love's but a dance! A whisper, a glance, "Shall we twirl down the middle?" O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle!”