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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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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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.
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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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He who is contented is rich.
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I think that the elites have lived too long among themselves.
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I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.
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I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.
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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.
