Leonard Slatkin Quotes

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

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• He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Work
  • Short
  • Tall

• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

  

  Adam Braun
  • School
  • Business
  • Education

• I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'

  

  Randa Haines
  • God
  • Children
  • Me

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Good
  • Powerful
  • Beauty

• In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • Me
  • Honesty
  • Embarrassment

• A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
  • May
  • Soul

• One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Alone

• Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Beginning
  • Painting
  • End

• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Vote
  • Count

• Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Chance

• Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Politics
  • Exist
  • Well

• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Age
  • First
  • Ever

• I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Elderly

• There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Animal
  • Distinction

• I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.

  

  Marilyn Nelson
  • Writing
  • School
  • Book

• While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Air
  • China

• The Catholic religion doesn't have conspicuous symbols.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Catholic

• We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

  

  Leonard Slatkin
  • Great
  • Society