Alfred Brendel Quotes
I am accountable to the composer, but I am also there to communicate something to the listener. I am not delivering a soliloquy, but am somewhere in the middle.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.
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Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.
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I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.
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I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.
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But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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My parents did not encourage romances.
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After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.
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Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'
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The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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I like peace and solitude and silence.
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I don't belong much anywhere.
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I'm not a poster boy for Conservation International. I'm a working member of the board.
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Sophomore records are historically really difficult.
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I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
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I've come of heart, baby, but now I'm coolI didn't make it surely, playin' by the rulesI've come of heart, baby, but now I'm fineI'm checkin' trouble, sure movin' down the lineI've come of heart, baby, but that's OK'Cause Trouble Man don't get in my way.
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The Dice Man, 1971, p. 99.
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'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
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With regard to my case, the concept has been called a 'sign of the apocalypse' and listed under the News of the Weird.
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The president does have a significant negative power, bigger than the Senate upper house. It is harder to overrule the president’s veto than to approve a law which has been rejected by the higher chamber. This would lead to a continuous conflict and the inability to sort out many important issues.
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I am accountable to the composer, but I am also there to communicate something to the listener. I am not delivering a soliloquy, but am somewhere in the middle.
