James Levine Quotes
It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.
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Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
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Governor Romney is a real hardliner on illegal immigration.
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I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.
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These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;The diver Omar plucked them from their bed,Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.
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You know that band that are all over 'Melody Maker,' Huggy Bear, they're just a load of crap, right? Riot grrrl group - y'know, it's all sexism and stuff, women standing up for their rights: 'This girl said this at the gig off the stage.' It's nothing got to do with music. They're probably untalented gits when it comes to the crunch.
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She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
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It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.
