Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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It's ridiculous to imagine you can stay young forever and live forever. It's taking away from young people. There's a beauty and respect in age. Magazines and media are disrespectful of age.
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We hope to make some progress as they day goes on. Obviously we want to get up to full strength as soon as possible.
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Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
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I return to the stage time and again to see if I am worth anything.
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It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
