Michel Legrand Quotes
To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
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My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.
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Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
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When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in some way filtering it or interpreting it, of course there's potential for them to feel that you have, in some way, not lived up to what it could have been.
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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.
