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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."

"More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad."

"It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father."

"Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works."
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"Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure."

"I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know."

"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."

"The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like."

"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."

"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."

"What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?"

"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."

"Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time."

"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."
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