Kaytranada Quotes
I don't want awkward shows with people looking at their phones or tweeting. That's something you should do at home.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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Marriage isn't the end-point of a relationship. It's just a stepping stone, one aspect of a long-term evolution between two people who have, for whatever reason, decided to take a leap of faith and say, 'Well, hey, this is a person who I want to try with for the rest of my life.' Which is not a guarantee of perfection - far from it.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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I think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.
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Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything.
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I don't want awkward shows with people looking at their phones or tweeting. That's something you should do at home.
