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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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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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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Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
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First you have to witness that you are stressing out: Oh, my trigger is here. The news is stressing me out or This line is so long. Let yourself feel it. You don't want to spiritually bypass these problems. Give yourself a couple of minutes to sit in the feeling. Acceptance sets you free from the stress of expectation.
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Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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It's just about being honest. I listen to a lot of stuff that's out there, some of which I wrote, and I'm like, 'Where is that? Where's the honesty?' So that's what I want to get to in my music now.
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I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.
