Max Richter Quotes
When I was a student, if you accidentally wrote a triad in a piece of yours, it was just sort of like you were breaking the law! You just couldn't do it. And that just meant you were a bad composer.
Quotes to Explore
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.
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Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be!
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We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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Oh, this isn't a talk show; it's more just filling time, really, 'til the infomercials start.
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Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.
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Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
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See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.
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So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.
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When I was a student, if you accidentally wrote a triad in a piece of yours, it was just sort of like you were breaking the law! You just couldn't do it. And that just meant you were a bad composer.
