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"Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways."
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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
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"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."
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"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."
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"American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it."
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"Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire."
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"I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once."
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"An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards."
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"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."
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"A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding."
Men
"The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like."
Love
"However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all."
Thought
"I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world."
Age
"Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists."
Art
"Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong."
Accident
"When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag."
People
"Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions."
Appearance
"For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general."
Government
"Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him."
Father
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