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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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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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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There are not many athletes who are out. And I think it's something that's important. It felt important to me. I guess it seems like a weight off my shoulders, because I've been playing a lot better than I've ever played before. I think I'm just enjoying myself, and I'm happy.
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We talk about Hollywood being pro-labor, yet about 70% of our industry has been farmed out to Canada, meaning we are losing jobs like crazy. Where's organized labor asking how we can allow such a thing to happen?
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I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them.
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Yes, I am very unhappy, extremely anguished at human rights violations against Kashmiris in India or against Rohingyas in Burma or, for that matter, Christians in Orissa; but obviously, I am going to be more concerned of violations taking place in my own house because I am closer to the people who I live with. I have more passion for them.
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It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. As Henry Ford said many years earlier: "If I had listened to my customers, I would have built a faster horse." Inventions in general express Shannon entropy. They come from the supply side.
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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.
