Leonid Hurwicz Quotes
There were times when other people said I was on the short list, but as time passed and nothing happened, I didn’t expect the recognition would come because people who were familiar with my work were slowly dying off.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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I'm not a guy that ever got in a fight on the street and with the public and everybody.
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A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.
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There was a time in my 40s where I thought, oh, it's all over - not just work, but I'm never going to feel young again, I'm always going to feel like I know what's going to happen, I'll know what to expect. Looking back I don't know if that was a midlife crisis, I don't know - but I don't feel that now. There's possibilities. It gets better.
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There were times when other people said I was on the short list, but as time passed and nothing happened, I didn’t expect the recognition would come because people who were familiar with my work were slowly dying off.
