Kurt Masur Quotes
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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.
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Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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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.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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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.
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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.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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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.
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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.
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My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.
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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.
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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.
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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
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Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artesemollit mores nec sinit esse feros.
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Maybe it's my freak flag that, when I go to a haunted mansion, I would rather blend in with them and be part of the story rather than have someone jump out at me. To be part of the fantasy seems way more interesting to me, to embed myself in there and just drop in, in that way.
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I got called 'pretty boy' my whole life.
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I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
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I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.
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I don't think anyone really knows the purpose of their existence.
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What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
