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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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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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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I take Sudafed to combat my congestion, so I always carry some with me because I like to be prepared and make sure I'm ready whenever symptoms strike. It's also a really good idea to figure out what your triggers are.
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Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that's how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it's discomfiting if we don't understand things.
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Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.
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I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.
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I think you create your own hipness.
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I've been home-schooled since I was in the fifth grade, mainly because I had two brothers who were acting. We were from Kansas but moved out to Los Angeles.
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Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks.' They always do.
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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.
