"Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do."

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Way Quotes

“You again,â€ she said, and she did not sound happy. â€œI know,â€ the warrior replied with a heartfelt sigh. â€œYouâ€™re so lucky to see me twice in one day. Youâ€™re honored by my presence, yada, yada, heard it all before. Letâ€™s just move on, shall we. I donâ€™t handle fawning very well.”
“There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.”

Source : Eric Shipton (2014). “Nanda Devi”, p.8, Vertebrate Publishing
“Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?”

Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
“I don't think I have enough of an interest in today's cultural mood to connect with or reject it. I'm compelled by the ideas that arrive when I'm not trying, and I follow them through almost every time. I feel fortunate that these days, there are a lot of them. You could argue that they are informed by everything I'm experiencing culturally around me but I don't, for example, look online for new music or art very often, and I don't think there is much in contemporary culture for me. It's a needle in a haystack kind of thing, and I'd rather spend that time working on a new song.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“You know, it's a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we're drawing in people who not only people who have seen the show before and are devoted to it, but people who have never seen it before.”
“Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.”
“Do I look like the Green River Killer?”
“Jewish people, we don't believe in Hell or a future place to suffer. We're suffering right now. Every one of our holidays celebrates how much we've suffered. Passover - we're celebrating 5,000 years ago, God passed over our houses and murdered all the Egyptians. We're celebrating, 'Hey, thank God we didn't get slaughtered.”

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