Vagit Alekperov Quotes
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.
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I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.
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There are two things that go on in art. There's getting to the essential material and a design that's inherent in the use of material, and also an essential level of expressiveness, a precise way of saying something rather than a complicated way.
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To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.
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If I go to the department store, I get no excitement: I can buy the entire department store instead of one bag. So I lost excitement of shopping.
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Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
