Bryce Dessner Quotes
We all contribute to The National, and it's like a familiar family. Matt is dad, Brian's like the dark horse uncle, Scott's the long-suffering mum, and Aaron and I are the bratty twins.
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
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I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.
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I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.
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Like a lot of snackers, I recognized that snacking is an indulgence and is all about taste.
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I think if you have an eye and the ability and the confidence as a designer, you can turn your hand to anything.
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We all contribute to The National, and it's like a familiar family. Matt is dad, Brian's like the dark horse uncle, Scott's the long-suffering mum, and Aaron and I are the bratty twins.
