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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Enthusiasm is something so positive.
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When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.
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To make riot grrrl move into the future in a new way with a bunch of new names and a bunch of new energy, younger people have to learn about it and apply it to their own lives and own modern conversation. And they are.
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The moment our daughter was lifted up and we laid eyes on her was incredible.
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I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
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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!
