Darin Strauss Quotes
Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
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We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
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A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
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In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.
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My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.
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We rarely know what motivates somebody in their work, and it's usually a particular moment in their life. For me, that moment is my brother's incarceration and the ways in which this country has decided to neglect, abuse, and sometimes torture people with severe mental illness, especially if they're black.
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Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.
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I applied, and I got in as a pianist. Their idea in the music department was that pianists, if they were good enough to get in, they were good enough to learn a new instrument. They felt sorry for pianists being alone in the practice room all the time, and they really wanted to socialize us pianists.
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Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is because it's a mechanism of power and control. You can control priests who are celibate.
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When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It was a very, very exciting period!
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Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.
