Neil Kurshan Quotes
Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.
Quotes to Explore
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.
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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.
