Alejandro Amenabar Quotes

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Alejandro Amenabar

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MusicToo MuchSometimesScoreWell

That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and deeply-held, reasonable beliefs is the core of human dignity. In fact, that's the basis for civilization itself. And when you lose that fundamental principle... you have no basis on which to build.

Jeff Fortenberry

FreedomSpaceExerciseYouLose

I take it for what it is, and sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it.

Michael Ian Black

TimeCriticismSometimesSomething

Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.

Michael D. Higgins

AgeWorldBetterDreamOwnMust

I sort of look at acting like that: if you have no confines, you have everywhere to go.

Summer Phoenix

YouLookActingGoLikeSort

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

Shirley MacLaine

SuccessTruthPeopleRememberPlace

To be earning a living as an artist at any time, any place is kinda the ultimate gift that you can receive from the universe, and I'm very much aware of that. I get to do exactly what I want to do.

Rodney Crowell

TimeGiftUniverseYouArtistPlace

I've never met anyone normal.

Michael Sheen

NeverNormalMetAnyone

Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.

Joseph Nye

LeadershipChangeGoalsRisksWorld

Both my parents have been big influences on me wanting to do music. My mum's always been, 'Just do it. Just sing.'

Jorja Smith

MusicParentsMeAlwaysBigSing

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Diane Ackerman

LifeWantMy OwnOwnPassenger

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

David Soul

TheatreTraditionBritishExist

You can still love your job and feel guilty. You can still love your child and feel guilty. There's a lot of grey in that. It's about being conscious when you are spending time with your kids, being with them in the moment.

Christine Ebersole

LoveTimeMomentJobChildYou

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