Leonard Slatkin Quotes

I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.'

Leonard Slatkin

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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

John Banville

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I dreamed my way into Lincoln and the details that moved me - his lack of education or 'civilized' manners and his deep connection to all humankind.

Jerome Charyn

EducationMeDeepDetailsConnection

London and its people are famed for their incredible indifference to one another, but it's actually a charade that requires some effort to maintain.

Robert Rinder

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I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

Anita Shreve

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In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

Rupert Holmes

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With all editing, no matter how sensitive - and I've been very lucky here - I react sulkily at first, but then I settle down and get on with it, and a year later I have my book in my hand.

Michael Morpurgo

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The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.

Jose Manuel Barroso

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In addition to offering benefits to those who invest, carry out research, and create jobs, higher taxes on land and real-estate speculation would redirect capital toward productivity-enhancing spending - the key to long-term improvement in living standards.

Joseph Stiglitz

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We are all big Motown fans.

Coy Bowles

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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

Bobby Fischer

HealingNothingTouchHuman

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

Bob Keeshan

LifeStrengthGoodChildrenPeople

To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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