Yo-Yo Ma Quotes
It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
Quotes to Explore
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.
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I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
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I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.
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I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
