Robert Mankoff Quotes

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

Robert Mankoff

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Being appointed as the next Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester is a completely overwhelming honour. This extraordinary orchestra and its wonderful musicians are unique in so many respects, and particularly in their creation of an exceptional sound world based on outstanding tradition that is, at its heart, inspirational.

Andris Nelsons

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As a writer, that moment every few years when I buy a new laptop and find out that all the word processing stuff has slightly changed again (stuff I spend every working day using) is like getting into bed at night and finding some mad robot where you expected your wife to be.

John Niven

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It's a really good format to have, to go back to theatre and build yourself as an actor. I think it's a great skill to go from screen to stage.

Aneurin Barnard

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Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.

Stella Blum

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I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

Sufjan Stevens

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You suddenly find yourself somewhere and you wonder, how did I get in this room? That happens to me all the time, every day!

Shirley Henderson

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Just as the music industry couldn't combat the financial impact of digital piracy, major corporations will have to rethink how to maintain margins when many of their most profitable items can be easily manufactured at home.

Jay Samit

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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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My mindset was that I was always going to be in Toronto my whole career, but I was never naive.

DeMar DeRozan

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

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You don't always have to get an expensive gym membership. The important thing is to keep moving and to make it fun and have variety - it's the spice of life.

Christie Brinkley

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For me, I'm just me. That's what I realized the best thing to be is.

Brian Ortega

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