It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.
You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.
I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting.
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting... I'm not sure why.
To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you.
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
It is my belief that love dies from overuse, and the heart dies from a lack of interest in life without it.
It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine ...
