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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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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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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Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
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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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Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
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A lot of my friends have told me to read 'Tao Te Ching' - a classic Chinese text on the fundamentals of Taoism.
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Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want, that it's not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it's nothing more than an Easter egg, or a name drop, and sometimes it's someone like 'Deathstroke,' who is a huge part of the DC Universe.
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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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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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If I believe we need free personal care, we need an honest discussion about what it costs with a well-managed, well-trained workforce.
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I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
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I've never played it safe on my own music.
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I had never released any music until 'Bruises' came out when I was 20.
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I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.
