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Michael Tilson Thomas Quotes

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.

Michael Tilson Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 21, 1944

Topics

Feel Admire Contact Pieces Only

The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school.

Father Children Time Man School

The nominee is Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan joins Mitt Romney. The budget plan, the approach on Medicare and all of that is going to be the Romney plan. What he has is a man as his number two who understands the details of budgets, who has demonstrated a willingness to take on tough issues.

Man Tough Details Budget Plan Two

Chekhov would have been an excellent screenwriter. He is singularly good at dipping in and out of a group of people's lives, like Robert Altman did.

Good People Group Out Been Would

'Broadway Bound' is near and dear to my heart, as it was one of my happiest times on Broadway.

Jason Alexander

Heart Broadway Happiest Dear Bound

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Joseph de Maistre

Good Evil Philosophy Place Nothing

A lot of magic is designed to appeal to people visually, but what I'm trying to affect is their minds, their moods, their perceptions.

People Magic Trying Minds Affect

Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs.

Balance Government Help Create Tax

The Kerala market may be small, but the reach is very wide. I am told Malayalis in Russia and Paris, too, watch my films, and that's something!

I Am Small Reach Paris Russia May

Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people.

Today Sea Water People Think First

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

Morning Beautiful Bird Sun Song Ask

I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable, and the balance and the true and tried, you go down to quite bizarre things which are very risky for people, particularly people who are young or vulnerable or unable to discriminate.

Peter Hollingworth

Great Balance People World Think

Everything used to get under my skin, and now I'll just be like, 'That's life.' I'm so much more unbothered.

Life Skin Now More Everything Used

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