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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
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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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I would encourage young women to find a person, give it your all, and leave it all on the field. The one thing I have found is that, if you are sitting at a table, most women will want to only give their opinion only when it's almost fact in their mind - whereas dudes will pontificate a lot more. And I will tell you, I've started pontificating a lot more, which is very satisfying. Women should not be afraid to speak.
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I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.
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Believe, obey, fight.
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I can be going through nothing, but within me, in my head, oh my God! It can be a circus.
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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.
