Alfred Brendel Quotes
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
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Well, I can't figure out God.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?
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If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.
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I'll never have to write my memoirs now after reading this. She had six husbands, at least six lovers - why, my life is so dull compared to hers! I've had one husband, one daughter, one house and no lovers.
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Nature must not win the game, but she cannot lose. And whenever the conscious mind clings to hard and fast concepts and gets caught in its own rules and regulations - as is unavoidable and of the essence of civilized consciousness - nature pops up with her inescapable demands.
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Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.
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We have a choice, every single day that we wake up, of what we can put into the world, and I ask you to please choose love every single day.
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I've always worked very hard.
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I've bought clothes based on record covers. Particularly from the formative music that turned me onto it in the first place when I was a kid, with the Beatles and the Small Faces. A lot of those Sixties soul artists were in really sharp sharkskin or mohair suits, and Motown artists looked amazing.
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The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably we'd picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.
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We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.
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Canadians have an inherent good nature, and they are used to being made fun of.
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You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.
