Itzhak Perlman Quotes
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.
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We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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I've learned you can always achieve more than you thought you could. There are moments when I've walked off the court, and I'm like, 'I don't know how I won that match.' It was actually impossible, but it happened, and then you realize that you can push yourself much further than you ever thought, and you can make the impossible happen.
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Everyone is going to die.
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Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.
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Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.
