Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the World War II, and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.
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The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
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I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
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I hardly see myself as a futurist.
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I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime.
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We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.
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Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.
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Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.
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The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the World War II, and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
