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.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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I am a very strict mother, and as a mother, it's my responsibility to guide my kids and tell them to go how far and no further. There should be rules and guidelines for the kids, and they should know their limits.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
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The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.
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Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.
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You can't write a character more brilliant than yourself. It's just not physically possible.
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I loved doing 'The Family' with Eunice and Mama. They were very interesting because there were no jokes written into those sketches. It was all character-driven. And sometimes it got a little heavy.
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You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.
