Andre Previn Quotes
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
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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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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.
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When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.
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Wherever people are in their evolution, they start to come into that hope and feeling like they are okay, that they're going to be okay.
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I've learned now to have a second title in reserve because, frequently, I come up with titles that seem to make editors' hair fall out.
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For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.
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A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
