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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."
Explore more quotes by Lara St. John

"I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know."

"And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time."

"When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag."

"I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world."

"What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?"

"However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all."

"Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time."

"Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong."

"There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered."
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