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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Defense is gonna help me in particular and help my team, so that's what I've really focused on.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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The Federal Reserve is the overlord of the money supply. If these two are not steering in the same direction, they can either neutralize each other or have the economy lurching in all directions. This is not a rational system for setting economic policy. It has given us trouble in the past, as the text will establish, and will inevitably in the future.
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Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.
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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.
