Andris Nelsons Quotes
You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.
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I'm very self-critical.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.
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Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.
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It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.
