Simon Rattle Quotes
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.
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I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.
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For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.
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In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
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I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.
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Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
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The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge.
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Kobe is missing out by not finding a way to become part of a system that involves giving to something larger than himself.
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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
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What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.
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The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around.
