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"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly."
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"Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."
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"Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA."
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"I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things."
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"Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good."
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"Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood."
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"Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns."
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"I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning."
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"The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result."
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"I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous."
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"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."
World
"When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down."
Father
"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."
People
"The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places."
People
"I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected."
Fiction
"Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in."
Heart
"I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal."
Thought
"Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now."
Now
"It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print."
Belief
"When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so."
Work
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