Elmer Bernstein Quotes
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I love recording music.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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I am an honest, straight guy.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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When I visit businesses across New Hampshire, they tell me that their No. 1 need is even more highly skilled workers to fill job openings.
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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.
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To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.
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One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
