Leonard Slatkin Quotes
I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.
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The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.
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I like to do heavy lifting, so it's a great thing to have meals that have a lot of protein to maintain that.
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I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.
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It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.
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I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.
