Itzhak Perlman Quotes
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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If I am not moving I get bored very easily.
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I know straight away if there are roles I don't want to do, and I have a lot of arguments with my agents about those.
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If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
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I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.
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When I began modelling in my late teens, I started to earn a lot of money very, very quickly, but I'd never been shown how to manage it properly.
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I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.
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Glitter is my makeup of choice.
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When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.
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I've been through a lot of different situations, and the key thing I've learned is: Don't panic. That's the advice I give people. If anaphylaxis occurs, just do the necessary things. If it's your first time, call and seek emergency assistance and find out exactly what's happening. Get help.
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As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.
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Green tea throughout the day is the healthiest thing I've discovered for me.
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I get inspired at different times and in different ways.
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Dust had dimmed only a fraction, not enough. Decay had brushed with its rotten fingers not nearly all it should. It was an enchanted sweet, stuck in the throat of time.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away. Maybe you wouldn't really hear the James Taylor influences in my music, but they're definitely buried in there.
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Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
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I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.
