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I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but p... CARLISLE FLOYD We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very brig... CARLISLE FLOYD I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the sce... CARLISLE FLOYD People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in... CARLISLE FLOYD Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has surv... CARLISLE FLOYD If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically... CARLISLE FLOYD I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unle... CARLISLE FLOYD What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of nat... 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What is the Other?" they ask.
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
One man has enthusiasm !0 minutes, another !0 days, but it is the man who has it !0 years who makes ... 
Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor... 
Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. 
PERCIVAL: Now, who is telling the story?
The secret of my success is my hairspray. 
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part ... 
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Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for ... 
Without a past you can't have a future. 
Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember ... 
I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weir... 
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because... 
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
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Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an o... 
The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when I was six - it was the... 
In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire. 
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Alan Turing is so important to me and to the world, and his story is so important to be told, so it ... 
Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire 
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The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... 
I wish I was home", She said miserably. 
To me, those are the heroes of the story. It was government that failed. It was people who stood up. 
The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feelin... 
I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of... 
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And there he sat, looking outwardly composed, and all she could think of was that pond. Because some... 
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(On WWI:)
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price. 
He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any ... 
The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Jose... 
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... 
A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserabl... 
To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was ... 
If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man. This is a big statement and it so... 
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself 
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed tha... 
I will not call that person happy who knows no rest because of his enemies, who is the butt of fun b... 
Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man wh... 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... 
I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... 