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"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."
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"It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here."
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"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind."
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"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."
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"We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children."
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"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."
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"There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period."
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"Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you."
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"Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident."
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"I started playing guitar kind of by accident."
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"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."
Possibility

"Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists."
Art

"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."
Thought

"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?"
Music

"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."
History

"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."
Time

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

"A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding."
Men

"For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general."
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"Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen."
Being
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