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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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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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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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'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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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
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I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.
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I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music.
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We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.
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If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
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But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them.
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Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
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Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
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Every day I try to push the boundaries, and it's paid off.
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Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
