Bruno Walter Quotes
By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
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I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'
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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
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Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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Small businesses win as they get more contracts; workers win as small businesses create jobs; and taxpayers win as prices are driven down.
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I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.
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I didn't really know you could make a living in songwriting. I was just very fortunate to have the opportunity to play a few songs for a guy there named Jimmy Ritchey. Through that meeting, I met another couple guys and ended up getting a publishing deal in Nashville.
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
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Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.
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A single element in transactional mode can never be analysed to calculate either loss or presumptive loss. The losses or gains of all elements in the transaction need to be analysed.
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Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
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When I got the invitation to be part of 'The Ghost' or 'The Ghost Writer,' as it's now known, from Mr. Roman Polanski, my interest level was very piqued. I was very excited and pleased to get such an offer from Mr. Roman Polanski.
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Everything is natural and nature is the whole of everything of which I am apart of and so are you.
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As actors, we want to challenges ourselves and put ourselves in different situations to see how we react and deliver a performance.
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Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
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The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.
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By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
