Du Yun Quotes
I'm a very textural composer. I care a lot about textures and gestures. Electronics add so much to that. It's like a flavor - it creates so much texture.
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If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
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Everyone's curves fall in a different place. But you can't put something of mine on and not see curves.
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By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
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I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.
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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.
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The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another, as if they were but several parts of one general Prophecy, given at several times. The first is the easiest to be understood, and every following Prophecy adds something new to the former.
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Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.
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I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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Some stories, Mr.Whitter would say, you tell them and you use them up. Other stories, they use you up. p288
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I'm a very textural composer. I care a lot about textures and gestures. Electronics add so much to that. It's like a flavor - it creates so much texture.
