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"I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit."
"For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful."
"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."
"The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten."
"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."
"Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause."
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"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."
"I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album."
"Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history."
"Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have."
"You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family."
"We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance."
"I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum."
"Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily."
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