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Librettist Inspirational Quotes (7320)

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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
Vikram Seth
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
Vikram Seth
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I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
Vikram Seth
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
Vikram Seth
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
Vikram Seth
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
Vikram Seth
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
Vikram Seth
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
Gertrude Stein
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost what I possessed is left to others what I gave away remains with me.'
Joseph Addison
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I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.
Jerome Lawrence
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Even when I was at 'SNL,' I didn't do impersonations. I always wanted to be the kind of person who could do them - I always thought they were the coolest thing on the show - but I didn't have any experience.
Tina Fey
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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein
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When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.
Russell Hoban
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All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.
Neil Simon
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In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
Toni Morrison
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It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.
P. G. Wodehouse
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The bureaucracy has grown such powerful roots in Russia, and corruption is so widespread, that people from opposition have no interest in changing anything.
Vladimir Sorokin
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My television teaches me that everything was wonderful in the Soviet Union. According to the programs I watch, the KGB and apparatchiks were angels, and the Stalin era was so festive that the heroes of the day must still be celebrated today.
Vladimir Sorokin
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The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the oprichnina - the system of oppression.
Vladimir Sorokin
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