Christopher Young Quotes
'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
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I love Channing Tatum!
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say.
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I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.
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When there is nothing else to say, I go for a smoke.
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I've done well over time but made lots of mistakes, too. Learn from your mistakes.
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I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.
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'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.
