Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.
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In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
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All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.
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To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
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i am a herd of cats and a drunk shepherd with alzheimer’s all at once. i am the walrus.
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That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak.
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Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.
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People need to see where their dollars are going and what infrastructure is being built.
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As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not the only one down here in the muck - our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy.
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I will stay living in Staffordshire. Other people would be moving offshore. I am reasonably happy to help support the British economy. I have done very well out of Britain.
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I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
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I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying.
