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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Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.
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Whenever I was on the podium, it felt weird. I was obviously happy to have done well, but it wasn't truly happy from the bottom of my heart.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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I knew I was crazy because I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar and the part where Jesus carries the cross up the mountain, I actually said to myself, 'Wow! That must be a really good workout! Yeah, because you're doing arms and cardio!'
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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.
