"The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me."

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Thomas Beecham

#Music Quotes #Player Quotes #Upset Quotes

“For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make this film. That's part of the pleasure and that's why I'm not a normal professional director.”
“It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause.”
“There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.”
“Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.”
“Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.”
“All we really want to do is dance.”
“If we should die trying to live, at least we live like human beings.”

Source : "Fictional character: Tuvia Bielski". "Defiance", www.imdb.com. 2008.
“Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.”

Source : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (2016). “The Manifesto of Futurism”, p.9, Passerino Editore

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