Aaron Koblin Quotes
I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct it or be a musician.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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I liked animals better than people. That's one of the reasons I wanted to be a vet - then I found out that every pet had a person that owned 'em.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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Jon Jones, grow up, bud. We're going to fight regardless of how you feel. And when we do, and I'm cutting the line, and you might as well pull the guard because I'm taking you down.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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If you think about it, player for player we are fairly huge. It's rare when you can put that type of lineup in and mix in some size and athleticism.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.
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I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct it or be a musician.
