James Mercer Quotes
The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that flows together, that brings you back.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
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The immigrant experience had a profound effect on me. It taught me the importance of hard work and the value of being entrepreneurial.
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When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I'd always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to do it. I still do.
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
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I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.
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I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.
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The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that flows together, that brings you back.
