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Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.
Leonard Slatkin
Love
Time
Cinema
Passion
Like
Go
Up
Did
Movies
Hollywood
Growing
Growing Up
I am usually cooking at least four times a week if I am home. The easiest thing that I do a lot is gazpacho. It's simple and it tastes best if you let it sit over night in the refrigerator... I don't want anybody near me when I am cooking. If I am going to make a mistake, it has to be my fault.
Leonard Slatkin
Best
Home
Me
You
Mistake
Cooking
Fault
Simple
Sit
Easiest
Easiest Thing
Week
Over
Make
Am
Least
Lot
Times
Tastes
Going
Refrigerator
Anybody
Want
Near
Thing
Four
Night
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
Leonard Slatkin
Future
About
Developing
Performers
Audiences
Role
Orchestra
Just
Century
Playing
To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.
Leonard Slatkin
Work
Mind
Nothing
Late
Musical
Minimal
Simply
Sophistication
Schubert
Forces
Beethoven
Compares
Ear
I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either.
Leonard Slatkin
Before
Particularly
Concert
Very
After
Either
Lucid
There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.
Leonard Slatkin
World
Big
Too
Everything
Weaknesses
Well
None
Repertoire
Orchestra
Just
Us
Play
I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.
Leonard Slatkin
Music
Long
Alternate
Been
American
Next
British
Associated
In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.
Leonard Slatkin
Music
People
Words
Speak
Few
Believe
Ways
Hungarian
Recognise
Some
More
More People
Instance
Ideas
Hear
Itself
Very
Than
Them
Us
Communicator
Convincing
Speaks
Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with.
Leonard Slatkin
Time
Great
Together
People
Our
Randy
Our Time
Angeles
Both
Songwriters
Studio
Era
Los
Los Angeles
Up
Grew
Newman
Products
Fun
Film
The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year.
Leopold Trepper
People
Year
Every
Increased
States
Left
Canada
Who
United
United States
Number
Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.
Leopold Trepper
Army
Intelligence
Week
Red
Heads
After
Preparations
Received
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
Lillian Gordy Carter
Goals
Wish
Would
Would-Be
Had
Individuals
Reach
Children
Them
Meaning
Each
I love all my children, but some of them I don't like.
Lillian Gordy Carter
Love
Some
Like
Children
Them
I can't put into words what I think about anything.
Lilly Pulitzer
Words
Think
About
Put
Anything
I am a believer that color affects people's moods.
Lilly Pulitzer
People
Moods
Color
Am
Affects
Believer
Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring.
Lilly Pulitzer
Smile
Hope
Change
People
Made
Hope And Change
Obama
Seeing
Color
Inspiring
She
How
Michelle
Choices
Platforms
Bright
Reinforced
I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.
Lilly Pulitzer
School
Know
Wanted
Loved
Boarding
Boarding School
Career
Time means nothing to me.
Lilly Pulitzer
Time
Me
Nothing
Means
I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.
Linda Tripp
Book
Write
I have nothing to hide.
Linda Tripp
Hide
Nothing
I had a 20-year, stellar government career.
Linda Tripp
Government
Stellar
Had
Career
Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.
Linda Tripp
Respect
Earned
Ever
Assigned
My government career is over.
Linda Tripp
Government
Over
Career
Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
Home
Winter
Father
Church
Somebody
Saw
Run
Thursday
House
Around
Coming
Coming Home
Again
Evening
Last
I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
You
Confused
Telling
One Thing
Know
Another
Said
Answered
Am
Questions
Just
Many
Nearly
Thing
When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
Water
Three
First
Down
Minutes
Came
Cellar
Closet
Stairs
Two
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