Britt Daniel Quotes
You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.
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What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.
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I have worked alone and with a cast and enjoy the process both ways. There is more back-and-forth with a full cast, and you can feed off the other actors' performance.
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The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study imagination objectively since one really receives the image only if he admires it. Already in comparing one image to another, one runs the risk of losing participation in its individuality.
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Commercial radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.
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You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.
