Ernest Klein Quotes
What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
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I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
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I enjoy every role I do.
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We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.
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We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.
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I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
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To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.
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I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.
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I find music the the clearest and easiest way in to what a movie will feel like - more so than visual references or other movies or dense dossiers of research material. Every now and then I'll send a piece of music or two to people I'm working with - actors or heads of department - when I think it'll help them get a sense of the kind of movie I'm proposing. Often those pieces will end up in the movie - sometimes they won't.
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Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
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I'm unpolished, I guess.
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The Jews are a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also department orders and are herein expelled from the department within 24 hours from receipt of this order.
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What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.
