Andre Previn Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
-
The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
-
To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
-
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
-
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
-
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
-
People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
-
At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
-
I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
-
When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
-
To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
-
Time was God's first creation.
-
America is huge.
-
There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.
-
I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
-
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
-
My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
-
Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
-
I follow my heart in almost every instance, and it gets me in trouble most of the time. But I don't care. I think that's the best way I can live.
-
It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.
-
Rarely do I finish a song lyrically before I have a musical idea there, but then again, rarely ever would I finish a song musically before starting the lyrical ideas. So a lot of the time, they come in tandem, or they just come at a glance.
-
Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.
-
To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a chapter in a book, every bit as tedious and hopeless and halting. But this is not to say that the piano hasn't helped my writing. It has, just not in the ways I expected.
-
I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.
