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There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.
The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.
I go for a nice walk in my neighborhood and search for vinyl, old jazz, classics. Then I go home and listen to them.
Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset.
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
If you Google a list and just see all the movies that came out in 1984, they're classics, and they define that decade.
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
Whenever I am abroad, I spend hours and hours at video stores. I look for classics from filmmakers from all over the world.
The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics.
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
I love soundtracks. I used to have three iPod classics: one with regular music, one with soundtracks, and one with demos on it.
Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.
When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.
I love Tom Petty the way a lot of people love him. He's got so many amazing songs, and you know them by heart. They're classics.
I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.
Doing the classics is always nice because it's a part of the archive, and that's what people love to hear, and I don't mind that.
Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
If you're wearing Reebok classics, then you're going through a midlife crisis. I don't want to catch you wearing these in the rave.
I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.
Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time.
When I tour with the new album, I still do the classics, and I love the atmosphere it creates with the whole audience singing along.
Disney movies are a great outing for the entire family, and my children are huge fans of their classics, especially 'The Lion King.'
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason. I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.
There's very few comedy sci-fis that have worked for me other than the classics, like 'Red Dwarf' and, of course, 'Hitchhiker's Guide.'
You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.
I love men's coats, especially because they're so large and they give plenty of room; the man's coat remains one of my favorite classics.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
I watched the classics as a kid, and I could tell that Bugs Bunny in drag was a cartoon and a joke. It didn't make me start dressing in drag.
I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
The 'Classics Illustrated' series was an excellent primer in literature, and I also really enjoyed Zachary Hamby's mythology books for teens.
Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
I didn't want to overdo things with fashion. I wanted to mix and match the basics and classics to make it, you know, effortlessly fashionable.
Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.
Usually, my sets are a combination of what I love, what everyone loves; some classics, some new stuff and a couple of exclusives here and there.
To be able to rub shoulders with kids who have spent their entire lives studying the classics... that's something I need to improve my overview.
Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.
Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity.
When planning a Thanksgiving menu, it's always a balancing act between representing all the classics and satisfying all the members of your family.
Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.
My mom was one of the original designers for Coach in the eighties, and she designed some classics, including the City Bag. It's the only bag I use!
I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.
Kate Spade has great feminine classics and I love her bags. Designs by Rebecca Taylor, BCBG and Herve Leger are sexy and fun, and they work on my body.
The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.
I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs that sound like they're timeless.
You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.
Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I think it's really important to remake things. If you never remake the classics, no one would know Shakespeare.