Eugene Ormandy Quotes
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.
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...the relatively unconscious man driven by his natural impulses because, imprisoned in his familiar world, he clings to the commonplace, the obvious, the probable, the collectively valid, using for his motto: 'Thinking is difficult. Therefore, let the herd pronounce judgement.'
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'But girls often marry when they are too young,' exclaimed Mary-Marie quickly; 'so, if you don't object to my age - '
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Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.
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Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?
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δίχα δ' ἄλλων μονόφρων εἰμί
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’They are a very great boon to mankind, dentists,’ said Isabel. ‘And I’m not sure that we are grateful enough to them. I’m not sure that we even bother to thank them.’ She paused. Were there any statues of dentists? She thought not. And yet there should be.
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Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.
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I throw 14 parties a week.
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I'm really not that comfortable with people. I mean, I love individuals, but I'm not very social.
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As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.
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My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable.
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To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.
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When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.
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We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
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I never met Paul McCartney.
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Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.
