Leonard Slatkin Quotes
We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.
Leonard Slatkin
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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
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
Edgar Meyer
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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
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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
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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
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
Nancy Pelosi
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I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.
Natsuo Kirino
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'When I was a child I dreamed of adventure, glory, honor in feats of arms. I think now that these things are shadows.''If you see them as shadows then you see them for what they are,' Annlaw agreed. 'Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.'
Lloyd Alexander
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
Walter Cronkite
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
Edmund Waller
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'Short Term 12' was such a marathon. It's like trying to convey the same emotional depth as 'The Gambler' but with less time and a fingernail's worth of the budget.
Brie Larson
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We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.
Leonard Slatkin