Andre Previn Quotes
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.
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At the end of the day, we're all brothers and sisters in God. What people do is none of my business.
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The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
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Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.
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A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
