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 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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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'
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I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times.
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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
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My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
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Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.
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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.
