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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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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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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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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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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This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.
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After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.
