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.Yo-Yo Ma
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.
Nate Lowman -
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.
Harold Bloom -
I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
Garth Nix -
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.
Cameron Mackintosh -
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
Manuel Puig -
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Pat Barker
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
Kaskade -
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.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
Uwe Boll -
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.
Ada Yonath -
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.
Nate Berkus -
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Samuel Beckett
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
W. C. Fields -
I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
Carly Fiorina -
You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
Gail Collins -
Rihanna is always on my playlist. I think she pumps you up and gets the day going. I also love - and I know this doesn't sound like a workout album - the Lumineers, lately, and Taylor Swift.
Odette Annable -
Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
Edmund Morgan
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I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you.
Ian Bogost -
'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.
Yami Gautam -
So anything that's not absolutely needed, we would cut it [footage] out, which would make me very insecure; everything has to work, and it's a water movie in 3D with a kid, animals. So the more I do that, the more I'm scared of "What if it doesn't go the way we want it?" But we had to do that to meet the budget, otherwise we wouldn't even have a start-date.
Ang Lee -
The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
Ed Miliband -
My brother's really well-spoken.
Millie Bobby Brown -
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.
Yo-Yo Ma