#lot

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#audience #been #composers #every #first

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#beautiful #beautiful women #because #how #look

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#award #awards #because #consider #creating

After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#ancient #debut #during #family #found

I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#came #dull #first #here #i

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#another #back #encourage #good #good news

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#always #because #excellent #i #i always

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it! ↗

— Sai Baba

#even #lotus #must #petals #rises

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#different #different sounds #experimented #good #hip

I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. ↗

— Eric Bana

#chance #disappointment #five-year #flexible #give