Edie Brickell Quotes
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic.
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I hold to fiction as a cure, or partial cure, or cause for hope, or essential distraction from the rain you wake up to, the doubts in your head, the daily desolation that you have not yet said what is most true, you have not yet crafted the story that reveals you. And therefore something waits. Therefore you must wake and you must write and you are not alone. Your fiction is with you.
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I was really naïve. I had no idea artists made money.
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The road to energy efficiency is, in theory, a sustainability sweepstake. More efficiency means that less fuel is required to generate a given amount of energy, which in turn means lower costs for the provider and cheaper prices for the customers.
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The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
