Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
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Over a hundred million Americans reject the findings of the Warren Commission, whose report at least ninety-nine out of a hundred have never read.
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The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.
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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.
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Look at what's happening between Main Street and Wall Street. The stock market index is up 136 percent from the bottom. Middle class jobs lost during the correction: six million. Middle class jobs recovered: one million. So therefore we're up 16 percent on the jobs that were lost. These are only born-again jobs. We don't really have any new jobs, and there's a massive speculative frenzy going on in Wall Street that is disconnected from the real economy.
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With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.
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Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
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The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.
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I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.
