The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.
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These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.
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After an obviously long night he found himself staggering about at home, when that familiar urge suddenly came upon him. In an uncharacteristic flash of common sense he managed to get to his bedroom window before unloading his guts through it. Unfortunately he was standing in the garden, looking in.
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The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering.
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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.
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This is a market that is still in its infancy, but it has the potential to blossom into a staggering opportunity.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Do you realize what this means? The fact of being alive... I still find it staggering that I am here at all.
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