Evelyn Glennie Quotes
Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
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The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
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The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
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The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
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I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.
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I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
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Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness, but they also built provisional families, and inside our bubble there was joy, understanding, an intimate language I could never translate - and above all there was song.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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You don't want to be outside during blackfly season.
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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.
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Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.
