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For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one.
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And they're not going to be well-known.
As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
I like it when an author gives my imagination a chance, not filling in every little detail.
If there is any action that punishes imports to the North American market and encourages U.S. exports, you have to reflect it in a mirror action to counteract the change of incentives that this would make for activity and investment in Mexico.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
Trump is a systemic stress test.
I'm a pretty intense person at the racetrack, but when I'm not thinking about my race car or in the garage doing my job, I'm pretty laid back, and I like to be organized and do normal things.
Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.
I went back and started reading with Thor's first appearance, and my goal is to read all 600-plus issues in a row.
The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
