David Ogden Stiers Quotes

American - Actor | October 31, 1942 - March 3, 2018

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

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Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music.

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A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.

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I wish to spend my life's twilight being just who I am. I could claim noble reasons as coming out in order to move gay rights forward, but I must admit it is for far more selfish reasons. Now is the time I wish to find someone, and I do not desire to force any potential partner to live a life of extreme discretion with me.

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People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.

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Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

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The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.

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I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

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What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

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We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

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People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

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In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

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