Andre Previn Quotes
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I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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I just couldn't live without dogs.
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I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
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There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.
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I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things.
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I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.
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I vent my anger in the gym, and it calms me down.
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My mama just accepted everybody with open arms. Everybody knew her.
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Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?
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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
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Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.
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An ounce of perception, a pound of obscureProcess information at half speedPause, rewind, replayWarm memory chipRandom sample, hold the one you need - Vital Signs (1981)
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There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.
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I'm turning this industry around and making clothing that we've been wanting and needing.
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My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.
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All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.
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My go-go dancing was not your typical go-go dancing: I really was doing performance art. I would do dramatic, elaborate lyricals across the bar. I learned a lot, actually, as an artist during that time.
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The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.
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I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.
