Andre Previn Quotes
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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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My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.
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All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
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The way the textbook works is you have gains from trade that should be distributed across all the trading partners. As soon as one bad actor like China massively cheats, they win at the expense of us; they win at the expense of Europe, and over time, it threatens the entire integrity of the global financial system and the global trading system.
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We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
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Kids, do not fuck that shit; you'll get an infection.
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We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.
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All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
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I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.
