Pablo Casals Quotes
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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Life is always at some turning point.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
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You can run 20km, 80, 100, and if there's no spirit between the players, the coaches, as colleagues, it won't come out as well.
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I honestly go back and forth in my head about using advanced and innovative technologies for creating my characters. There's something more 'real' and charming when the characters aren't perfect. It's the difference between anything that's built by a computer and machine versus the same thing being made by hand.
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There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.
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Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
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I am so happy to be able to do what I love. To have the songs I've written for other artists go No. 1 and my songs go to No. 1 has been amazing.
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
