Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
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	One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.   
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	I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.   
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	I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.   
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	It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.   
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	When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.   
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	I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.   
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	There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.   
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	I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.   
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	I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.   
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	Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.   
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	I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.   
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	For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.   
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	When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'   
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	Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.   
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	I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!   
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	Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.   
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	Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.   
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	For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.   
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	It’s always hard to remember love – years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself?   
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	'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.   
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	Sasuke is always in the corner of my mind. Naruto and Sasuke progress as a pair. So when I write about Naruto, I always have to think about Sasuke. They are on opposite sides of the spectrum, like yin and yang.   
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	I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.   
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	Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.   
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	After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					