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We do not seem to be finding tomorrow's Toscas.

So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.

Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.

When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.

Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.

The invisible dilemma is that men face the very real problem that they don't feel comfortable bringing these issues up and they tend not to be acknowledged at work.

If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.

What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.

You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.

They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.

It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

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.

We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that