"Nothing is better for my playing than teaching because when you teach, you have to think and you have to listen what other people do. And then all of a sudden, you play yourself and then you say, my goodness, I don't need a teacher. I'm my own teacher. Then I can react to what I'm doing immediately. It really improves."

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Itzhak Perlman

#Teacher Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.”
“None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.”
“Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.272
“it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.”
“What got me excited to do Grima Wormtongue is when I was young I went through a period in boarding school were I was picked on alot. And there is something about Grima, he has been picked on when he was a kid, he (Grima) is so distrustful, he is so easily corrupted, He is so ugly, and he wants somebody, he wants to love somebody, and he can't, because nobody will have him.”
“... when I hear people say that penmanship is dead, my response: it's about time.”
“I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.”
“I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.”

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