Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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CharacterPeopleThinkNiceRoyal

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

John Huston

LonelinessDayTogetherWorldSmall

I myself am sometimes fed up with Hatta's policies. Hatta and I sometimes bug each other, but omitting Hatta from the Proclamation Text... that is the action of a coward!

Sukarno

MyselfActionSometimesCowardUp

You really can't say enough about 'Blade Runner.' For that movie to have such a long life - you can't describe what a beautiful feeling that is. Initially, the movie was out of theaters in something like two weeks. But the people that wanted it back - the fans - they really saved it.

Rutger Hauer

LifeBeautifulPeopleEnoughYou

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Mary Catherine Bateson

DeathEndingStoryMeaningTiming

There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

SmallBudgetCountryWrongNothing

I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

Louis Armstrong

SacrificePlayOddsDeterminedWhole

I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry to say, 'The audience has left the building. People don't want culture anymore.'

Diane Paulus

CulturePeopleBlameBuildingThink

Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done.

Anton Corbijn

DoneFilmHardestDirectingEver

The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

FearProcessYouEmotionEverything

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.

Algernon Blackwood

LifeImaginationNameAliveLiving

I look upon meself as... You take a band that's made up of arms, legs, bodies... I happen to be the piece that talks. And does all that area of it, you know? I'm also very easy to recognize; the darkie in the middle jumping around with the guitar, you know. Dat boy's got rhydm!!!

Phil Lynott

GuitarEasyYouLookKnowBoy

I'd be happy if anyone wore my fragrance. They don't have to be famous.

Shawn Mendes

HappyBe HappyFamousFragranceWore

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