Dave Sitek Quotes
I work very closely with my publisher and just give them tons and tons of music, and then they link that with different songwriters and stuff. I'm basically a workaholic. So, I figured I might as well just start working outside.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.
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I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.
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Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.
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We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.
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I work very closely with my publisher and just give them tons and tons of music, and then they link that with different songwriters and stuff. I'm basically a workaholic. So, I figured I might as well just start working outside.
