Samuel Barber quotes
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“I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.”
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“I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.”
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“How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society,”
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“He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.”
-- Samuel Barber -
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“I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.”
-- Samuel Barber
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“Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics
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“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”
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“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”
Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U
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Source : "The Interview: 'Boondocks' Creator Aaron McGruder". Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.
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