Andris Nelsons Quotes
I'm sure the atmosphere at Tanglewood and the space there and nature - I think it absolutely fits Wagner's music.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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My favorite spot is the Maldives. Since I travel so much for work, I like to go to places that are very secluded and quiet.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
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Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.
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Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism... Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How best can we serve you?
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If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
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I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I'm sure the atmosphere at Tanglewood and the space there and nature - I think it absolutely fits Wagner's music.
