David Finckel Quotes
If I were to run around the world playing just the cello concertos - and believe me, I love playing them - I would be counting my entire repertoire from year to year on my two hands.

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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
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There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a lot. So I applied to 30 different jobs and got rejected. I went for a job with the police; they said, 'You're no good.' I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted.
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It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.
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What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?
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Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.
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If any female - or male - does something in order to get 'likes' on their video or to get fans, they're being exploited, and they're actually selling out to a certain extent.
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I don't like artists who are actors. I like artists, but I don't believe in that.
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I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.
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I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.
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I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.
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If I were to run around the world playing just the cello concertos - and believe me, I love playing them - I would be counting my entire repertoire from year to year on my two hands.