Max Richter Quotes
In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and the great composers don't seem alien.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between accents and intelligence or accents and criminality, but people do make judgments.
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Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.
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When I'm writing Broadway, it's for a character, a man, a woman, an old guy, a kid. In the band, you're talking in your own voice in the lyrics, saying what you think or feel. On Broadway, you're expressing that through a character.
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I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.
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I believed that, in a situation where the community that I came from were being treated like second- and third-class citizens, that I had a responsibility to fight back against it. And I don't apologise to anybody for having done that. I think it was the right thing to do.
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In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and the great composers don't seem alien.
