Andre Previn Quotes
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.
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Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.
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One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
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... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voyeurism, human interest, cinéma vérité, a good belly chuckle, a sympathetic smile, a raised eyebrow, disguised contempt.
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I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.
