David Lowery Quotes
It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
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The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
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There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.
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Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
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I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.
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My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.
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It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization.
