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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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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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 want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.
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Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.
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We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.
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Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.
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It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
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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.
