Andris Nelsons Quotes
I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because he lived in a revolutionary era.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I never said half the things I said.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
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There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.
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I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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My mentors are those individuals who saw potential in me long before I perceived it in myself – or who challenged me to do more – the people who helped guide me toward excellence.
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My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
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I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.
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Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.
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I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because he lived in a revolutionary era.
