Alfred Brendel Quotes

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.

Alfred Brendel

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• Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • She
  • Best

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I always have bananas with me for energy.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Bananas

• There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Politician
  • Out
  • Smarter

• I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Work
  • Health

• It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.

  

  Laura Innes
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • School
  • English
  • Inspiration

• In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Present
  • Wars
  • Self-Defense

• I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Culture
  • Religion
  • Unique

• I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Audience
  • Kid

• Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Difference
  • Location
  • Mobile

• I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Body

• I was actually a Cowboys fan.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Fan
  • Actually
  • Cowboys

• My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • Music
  • Father

• Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

  

  Xenophon
  • Everything
  • Fast
  • Accuracy

• I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Stupid

• In the writers' room, I know the difference when someone brushes up against me and makes a sexist crack and when they've stepped over the line and made me feel uncomfortable and unsafe.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Up

• It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

  

  Zoë Heller
  • Habit
  • Greatness
  • Keys

• 'Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She's a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she's very fragile.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Character
  • Brave
  • Role

• If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.

  

  Miguel Indurain
  • Character
  • Aggressive

• You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.

  

  Alfred Brendel
  • Character
  • Possibilities
  • Moods