Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
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One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
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I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
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I love France. France is a nice place.
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There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.
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When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
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James Ibori gave me $15million as bribe in 2007
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There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has.
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The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.
