Evelyn Glennie Quotes
Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
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I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
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I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
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I certainly didn't have a nanny.
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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.
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I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
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What would possess a family where's there's a husband and wife to want 12 kids or 18 kids? That's just what they feel is meaningful to them. Their family. Expanding a family.
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A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.
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I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.
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Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
