Andris Nelsons Quotes
AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them.
Quotes to Explore
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I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
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I'm always late.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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Even as a kid, I would always imagine horrible circumstances in which I would find myself in my head, and imagine how I would feel, and act it out a bit for myself, because I was a bit of a freak like that. I love doing things like that, and I get a real buzz from it afterwards.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.
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My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.
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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
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I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.
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I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.
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The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.
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Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
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Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
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AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them.
