Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.
Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.
Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.
It's an honor to have been part of something so core to so many lives. The show has evolved beyond it's original intent and form and has transcended... itself!
I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them.
We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone.
If I feel like something needs to be updated, I'll break my neck to outdo the original.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
'Tristan' is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. It remains contemporary no matter what else surrounds it. There is something self-renewing about it.
Authors use 'almost' to avoid stating an outright fact, as though there were something inauthentic, dishonest, unfinished, undecided or even unwholesome - some might say repulsive, tacky, snub-nosed, too direct - in qualifying anything as definitely a this or a that.
The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
If somebody says or does something to me first, then I'll respond, and I go overboard with it, and it seems like I'm the one that has beef with somebody.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.
