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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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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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 handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.
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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
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My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
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There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.
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My family all thought I was a little nuts.
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We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.
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You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
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Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.
