"Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like."

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Van Cliburn

#People Quotes #Competition Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.”
“When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of balance. That was in the late '60s, '70s, women went to work, they went crazy. They thought the workplace was much more exciting than the home. They thought the family could wait. And you know what? The family can't wait. And women have now found that out. It all has to do with women, or the homemaker leaving the home and realizing that where they've gone is not as fabulous, or as rewarding, or as self-fulfilling as the balance between the workplace and the home place.”
“Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution”
“Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.”
“Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.”
“Justice lacking passion fails, betrays.”
“Programming is an explanatory activity.”
“The actor's always as good as the stories are. And so many important things, there is the light, there is the costumes, the makeup, there's the text, there's so many elements which the actor himself cannot control. But the script is the most important thing. First of all the story, and then you go from there. You know, it's like you stand in the kitchen, and say are we making a fish or do we grill a steak? And you go from there.”

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