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"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."
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"We should welcome applause whenever it comes."
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"Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end."
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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."
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"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."
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"The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten."
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"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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"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."
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"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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"What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it."
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"I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!"
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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
Man
"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."
Nature
"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."
Dream
"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."
Time
"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
People
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
Nature
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
Idea
"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
Experience
"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
Imagination
"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."
Virtue
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