Andris Nelsons Quotes
On stage, I'm always nervous, but there is so much adrenalin, too. It's strange because I have to turn my back on the audience, and my audience is the orchestra. I communicate my energy to them, and they communicate it to the audience behind me!
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I was tested against the best.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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It takes a lot of guts to come out to your friends and family. For most gay people, coming out is the most traumatic experience in their life because of the worry about the backlash: 'What's going to happen? Are my parents going to accept me? Are my friends going to accept me? Are my sisters and brothers going to accept me?'
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If you don't take risks in life, you'll never see anything new.
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I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.
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We have an aggressive productivity program, but it has not offset the impact of escalating costs in energy and raw materials and the speed at which they are flowing through.
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Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
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On stage, I'm always nervous, but there is so much adrenalin, too. It's strange because I have to turn my back on the audience, and my audience is the orchestra. I communicate my energy to them, and they communicate it to the audience behind me!
