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Nigel Kennedy Quotes

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: December 28, 1956

Topics

Time You Point Playing Different

I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.

Flying Places Alaska Kid Over Maps

The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.

Power Me Ghost Surprised Stories

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

Live Country Way Out

The letters that say 'I'm getting the messages you're sending me through the television screen' are not great. But those are few and far between, thank God. I get wonderful letters, and people send me artwork.

Stephen Colbert

God Great People Me Thank God You

I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge.

Work Challenge Job I Am Ready Am

Having kids makes you think about the world differently.

World Think You Kids Differently

Mormons are an extraordinarily educated and professional population. They have all these virtues: They work hard, don't skip school, have no scandals. Consequently, you find them in a lot of consequential places.

Work School Work Hard You Find Hard

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

People Think America Here Almost

I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Beach Vacation Picture Without Going

It's strange to look back over a full season. Our characters have accrued all these memories, but so have we, the actors. And sometimes the character memories and the actor memories bleed into each other.

Character Memories Look Back Strange

'2001' used a lot of what's called 'front projection.' You project an image onto this giant reflective screen, and the image bounces back and comes back to the lens and seems to be in the background behind the actors. The whole 'dawn of man' sequence in '2001' was projected eight-by-ten photographs of the African savannah.

Douglas Trumbull

Man Dawn You Back Lens Image

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers who carried out the marathon bombing, was a non-practicing Muslim who only became an Islamist militant once his dreams of becoming an Olympic boxer faded. At the time of the attack, he was unemployed.

Dreams Time Marathon Two Out Attack

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