A teacher is better than two books. ~German Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for. ~Brian Lamb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The pen is mightier than the sword. ~English Proverb
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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