Blythe Danner Quotes
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
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I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
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I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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It's always great when you're really needed.
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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
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I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.
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As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.
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Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
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Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
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The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
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We can't be The Beatles. I can't shine their shoes. I can't sing as well as Paul or John. I can't write those kind of songs. But they would die in my armour and my eight-inch platform heels, and Paul can't spit fire, so there you have it.
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The best music always results from ecstasies of logic.
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I, along with something like 5 million other people, insure to enable me to go into hospital on the day I want; at the time I want, and with a doctor I want.
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And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.
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Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.
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Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.
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With 'Invisible,' I didn't want to create something that requires you to watch it more than once; I don't even expect people to watch it more than once per se. I just wanted you to have the experience and knowing that if you watch it a second time, it would be different because you would see different things.
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I became interested in this question of whether you can build wormholes for interstellar travel. I realized that if you had a wormhole, the theory of general relativity by itself would permit you to go backward in time.
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I am always happiest in an ensemble.
