Bill Frisell Quotes
I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.
Quotes to Explore
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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I think and that is all that I am.
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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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My applications submitted to the Tribunal regarding my interview during the hunger strike were misinterpreted, and it was published in the press that I was going to offer defence, though in reality I was never willing to offer any defence.
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Ramen in L.A. is much better than ramen in San Francisco. That's just a fact.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I cannot wait until the day I can go back to school... I've already picked my program: anthropology at Columbia. I will not get in, but a girl can dream.
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The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'
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I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.
