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"Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway."
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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
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"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
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"Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway."
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"We should welcome applause whenever it comes."
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"Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end."
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"I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit."
Applause
"Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end."
Family
"If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job."
Experience
"I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes."
Thought
"Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players."
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"At the end of the movie all of us have this shared redemption."
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"We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end."
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"From where started, I think it is too far down to try and win a championship at the end of the season, although we had a very good first race at Mondello and scored some good points."
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"As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities."
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"I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there."
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"For a woman, forty is torture, the end."
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Personal Development
"The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting."
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"I think $100 at the end of the year doesn't mean a lot to me, but $100 from everyone in the state at the end of the year could mean lots of programs that could be good for Hawaii."
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"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."
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"My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts."
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