Charlie Byrd Quotes
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
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My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
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At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.
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The young are really the heirs to a generation of incompetence.
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What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'
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The only issue that I have a problem with when it comes to the new age is the way that people such as myself are diminished by that label. I simply don't consider myself "new age." It's other people's small-mindedness that tries to connect me with someone who, let's say, thinks crystals are the answers to all of life's problems. I never did. There are those who suggest that anyone speaking from a base in California has less to say. That kind of bashing doesn't interest me.
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I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.
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Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
