Top 202 Quotes & Sayings by Latvian Authors - Page 2

The fans will talk about whatever. But when you're not doing your best, you're losing, you can't let all that get to your head. You focus and try to play hard. The fans, they will respect you for that.

I think Carmelo is a great player. He makes players around him better. Whatever thing, whatever Carmelo wants me to do, I will do that out on the court just to prove that I'm worthy enough to be on the court with him, starting with the dirty jobs - just getting rebounds, getting shots, getting blocks, and just running the court.

Music goes beyond nationalities - it's a language which you can understand in any country.

'Black Swan' was absolutely unbelievable. I had always dreamed of working with Darren Aronofsky, and Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel. The entire cast was really a dream cast, and it was amazing to work with these powerhouse women that I've just admired for so many years.

I want to have a long career in the NBA. First, I want to be an All-Star, and hopefully one day I can win a ring with the New York Knicks.

I didn't want to be Nelsons's wife. I wanted to be soprano Kristine Opolais.

The Boston Symphony is one of the best orchestras in the world and has such a great tradition - which I want to cherish, of course, and to learn from and to continue and to add whatever I can add.

Laughter drives shouting away.

I knew there were going to be boos if the Knicks drafted me. That's how New York fans are.

I like Victoria Beckham - she has really good taste. Also, Natasha Poly, Miranda Kerr, and Alessandra Ambrosio. They know how to dress effortlessly sexy, but still cool.

Maybe I will end up in the movies.

Whatever people want to call me, I'm cool with, except 'Zinger.'

Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist.

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

I am totally, completely, 100% in love with fashion. I would wear Chanel gowns to the grocery store if I could. I'm a huge fan of Chanel and Versace, and I actually have always dreamed of designing my own line one day.

That's one thing about Americans: They know how to have fun.

At the end of the day the thing I want most of all is winning.

I am not playing on stage. I am living the situation. I cannot cut emotions and sing. I never save myself.

I'm sure the atmosphere at Tanglewood and the space there and nature - I think it absolutely fits Wagner's music.

We knew the European players that went to the NBA and had great careers, and we knew the ones that went and had terrible careers or finished early. We were prepared for a lot of criticism.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

I'm a student of the game.

You can never really relax until you've signed that contract with your team.

Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

I believe we have a physical body and a soul. It doesn't matter what religion you are, whether or not you believe in God. I think people believe that there is a soul and a body.

AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them.

I always say that I was dancing and acting in the belly. I feel like it's something I was born with and inspired by my family since I grew up backstage, watching them perform. I guess it was just a natural path for me.

I would like to dunk on Shaq.

When the oldest surviving record company goes all in on a conductor, everyone notices.

The first day I got drafted, I felt the fans were really passionate about basketball, and there was going to be a lot of pressure.

The two most important things is, one, the music in my life, and the family. It's somehow connected because music is about human beings, about love, about hate, about everything that happens in life.

When you have a great car, you want people to see the car.

Nobody is pushing me. Nobody is telling me what I do.

You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.

As a trumpet player, I was playing Xenakis, Lindberg: very challenging, technical, atonal, and I enjoyed it.

I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.

Bernstein was everywhere - Vienna, London - and everyone admired him. Of course he loved Boston, and he did so many great things at Tanglewood. He was the best example of what a conductor should be.

I was born in Eastern Europe, in Latvia, and I'm fluent in Russian.

We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in our heart. We take away what's unimportant.

That's why I'm never happy. Every tragedy, I really feel very painful - especially about a child or old people. This is reality. We try to close eyes and ears, but it's happening every second, and somehow, unfortunately, I feel a connection.

I'm European, and my roots are in Europe. But Boston is one of the most, in a way, European American cities. And I think I'll find a lot of similarities, historically and architecturally and tradition-wise.

I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.

Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.

The only thing I focus on is just winning. Once we win, everyone remembers a winner. That's what I'm focused on.

No one's comfortable with losing.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

I loved the Lakers in '09 and 2010. I used to get up early with my brother Janis, and we watched them win the titles.

Music is something so mystical, so unexplainably a thing you cannot put in the rules or boundaries, you know? It speaks about our feelings about questions of life and death. It goes absolutely beyond any kind of rules.

When I'm playing in a close game, I'm out on the floor only trying to help the team win.

Some people will always gossip.

I am a good wife, so I think we need to live where my husband is working.

The first year was kind of hard for me. There was just too much attention, too much going on, and I really just wanted to focus on basketball.

That's something that I gotta prove - I don't like being labeled as 'soft.' I'm not soft.

I try to eat as healthy as possible and try to put some weight on.

The task is to influence and create a reaction in the audience. In my opinion, any reaction of a human being in the audience, I think this is great. It means we touched the person's soul.

For the triangle to really work, everybody needs to be on the same page and know how to play it.

I feel too young in 2018 to take over the Berlin Philharmonic as the successor to Simon Rattle.

As a person who wants to see and believe in the story, I don't think women at age 50 are able to sing young girls.