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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He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed?
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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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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.
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The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.
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It’s been a dream to work with Netflix because they don’t have any pressure from advertisers.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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We are all saying no blank check to China, ... We have to be very clear to (Congress) about how important their vote is going to be.
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I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.
