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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#between #birth #changes #death #great

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#christmas #expecting #fell #first #friend

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

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I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had. ↗

— David Duchovny

#film #had #i #kind #life

I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there. ↗

— David Duchovny

#ether #i #i think #our #out

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well. ↗

— David Duchovny

#day #discipline #down #every #every single day

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery. ↗

— David Duchovny

#great #kid #mystery #never #sex

You can't control your mind. Why would you want to? ↗

— David Duchovny

#mind #want #why #would #you

My performances have finally caught up with my ego. ↗

— Ato Boldon

#ego #finally #performances #up

For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#beethoven #children #conducting #day #different