Kurt Masur Quotes

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

Kurt Masur

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• I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Attention

• Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Story

• Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Family
  • Texas
  • Farm

• I choose to focus on the positive.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Focus
  • Positive
  • Choose

• The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Best Friend

• Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Small
  • Land
  • Israel

• When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • You
  • Space
  • Lose

• I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Time
  • Understand
  • Colleagues

• Friendships are discovered rather than made.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Made
  • Friendships
  • Rather

• My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Work
  • Character
  • Famous

• I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Up
  • Years
  • Here

• I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Think
  • Rock
  • King

• Art gives us an opportunity to not have to leave or go somewhere or do something to experience the magic in our lives. It actually gets us to sit back and be where we are and recognize we're already magical.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artesemollit mores nec sinit esse feros.

  

  Ovid

• Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May
  • Science
  • Past

• Only in a country free from the funnelling of primogeniture and the levelling of égalité could the fifth generation of a family still be receiving parcels of wealth from a fortune that had essentially been made in the 1830s.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Country
  • Family
  • Free

• I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Fear
  • Alone
  • Trust

• I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Work
  • Relationship

• This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he! An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth! And they will take it so; if not he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends, Than twenty silly, ducking observants, That stretch their duty nicely.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Kind
  • Speak

• Regardless of the magnitude, the crowd, or the pay-per-view sales, the goal is to beat the guy in front of me.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Guy
  • Sales

• I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Trying

• What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

  

  Kurt Masur