Andre Previn Quotes

I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.

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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.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Black
  • Responsibility
  • Part

• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Me
  • Born
  • Playing

• I just couldn't live without dogs.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Live
  • Just
  • Without

• 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.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Time
  • Amazing

• There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Limits

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound

• 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.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Different
  • Want
  • Better

• I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Expression

• I vent my anger in the gym, and it calms me down.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Me
  • Down
  • Gym

• My mama just accepted everybody with open arms. Everybody knew her.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Arms
  • Open
  • Accepted

• Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?

  

  Larry Wall

• Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• 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.

  

  Anne Bradstreet
  • Spring
  • Winter
  • Adversity

• 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.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Time
  • Door
  • Bird

• 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)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Perception

• Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.

  

  Bob Marley
  • People
  • Real
  • Hope

• The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Live
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Josh Turner
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don't, then believe what you hear and run with that.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Thing

• The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

  

  Hugo Black
  • War
  • Peace
  • Government

• To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Life
  • Different
  • Remember

• I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.

  

  Michael Birch
  • Way
  • Persons
  • Wanted

• I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.

  

  Andre Previn