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I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#ballet dancer #beautiful #classical #classical music #cry

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#idealist #idiot #pity #village #would

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? ↗

— Milan Kundera

#existence #explores #given #his #historic

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#being #being forgotten #cease #dim #discoveries

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#built #certainties #comprehend #dead #novel

I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#blood #bodies #go #got #had

I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#favours #i #i do #listen #many

Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#believe #country #i #i believe #i believe in

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#books #could #from time to time #had #i

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#feel #i #i feel #listening #perhaps