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Quotes by Finnish Authors
"The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays."
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic."
"I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything."
"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
"I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness."
"Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."
"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it."
"I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat."
"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
"I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films."
"There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films."
"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
"Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less."
"It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s."
"When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was."
"In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do."
"Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business."
"At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film."
"I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you."
"When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver."
"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."
"Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision."
"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
"The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full."
"The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality."
"I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination."
"Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is."
"There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes."
"Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art."
"There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will."
"You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent."
"If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women."
"It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people."
"I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux."
"There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on."
"There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new."
"Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence."
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