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.

Max Richter

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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.

  

  Natalie Wood
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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.

  

  Dan Pink
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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.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
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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.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Me
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• It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

  

  W. C. Fields
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• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

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• People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

  

  Vernon Howard
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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.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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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.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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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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• Randomness works well in search-sometimes better than humans.

  

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• I don't say no as much as I should. I'm an extreme workaholic. So I can be sick, and I still say yes to anything. When you are the CEO of your own company, editor of your own videos, your own writer ,and you do every role yourself, you have a hard time saying no to opportunities.

  

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• I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.

  

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  • Bad
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• Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mind

• 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.

  

  Max Richter
  • Bad
  • Law