Brian Eno Quotes
I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
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I am very thankful for this opportunity. I can't tell you how much of a privilege and a honor it is for me to follow in the footsteps of my father. Everywhere he has gone, there have been two things that have been consistent when he has rebuilt programs. People have always said they have been full of integrity and passion. There's no question that is what I want to carry on.
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I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.
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If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up.
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I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
