Witold Lutosławski Quotes
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
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You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'
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When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.
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I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.
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I'm happy to work in the States because there are so many different and interesting projects. I'll go wherever people want me to work.
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I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.
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We're on to Cincinnati.
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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.
