Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
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Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.
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I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
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I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
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Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest.
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Le désir s'accroît quand l'effet se recule.
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Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
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Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
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More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself - from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreading across the planet as if by divine providence.
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I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things.
