Ruggiero Ricci Quotes
Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.
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There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.
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Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it's always been; but now, if you aren't brilliant or beautiful or both, there isn't much to do, because they can do it cheaper in Shanghai or Mumbai.
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We cannot fathom why people would stand across the street, easily a hundred feet away, when they could be so close, near us. ‘Suckers.’ I tell Toph, thumbing toward those watching from so far away. It is important, I feel, that the boy knows what suckers look like.'
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As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too. I don't have to think, What can I do to spice up my marriage? Because as time goes on, she changes, I change. I'm not married to the same girl I met by the pool. I love this woman more than I loved the person I married, but just in a different way.
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles.
