Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes
Barack himself is very much a regular guy, not a silver spoon, incredibly smart, but, you know, he's a scholarship kid, made good use of the resources that were available to him, worked incredibly hard.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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On Broadway, you are working with some incredible people, and they have great reasons for doing things the way they do.
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The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.
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Stuart Pearce will be a massive influence but we also need ten others to be massive influences
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Barack himself is very much a regular guy, not a silver spoon, incredibly smart, but, you know, he's a scholarship kid, made good use of the resources that were available to him, worked incredibly hard.
