#rope

When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#ago #american #conducting #conductor #doing

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#being #does #good #good man #himself

Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful. ↗

— Giovanni Agnelli

#america #especially #europe #italy #thought

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#continent #country #descent #estimated #europe

The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#aristocracy #away #countries #driven #europe

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean. ↗

— David Attenborough

#always #anybody #aware #been #better

On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#good #had #i #knew #knowledgeable

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#christians #corruption #grow #innocent #old

In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#because #converse #drink #during #eat

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place. ↗

— Jon Brion

#bit #dialogue #every #everything #hear