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"I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful."
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"If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it."

"Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry."

"All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that."

"Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon."

"I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it."

"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."

"I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working."
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"It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician."

"The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina."

"When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it."

"I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered."

"I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home."

"Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together."

"I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests."
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