Bryce Dessner Quotes
As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt moment.
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important.
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Because of a great love, one is courageous.
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I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
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I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
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On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
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Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the less.
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People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'
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Thou wast that all to me, love, For which my soul did pine - A green isle in the sea, love,A fountain and a shrine,All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,And all the flowers were mine.
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Then they died.And other men came after them. Wars flamed up and burned out; the howling peoples dwelt in smashed cities and kindled their fires with books.
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I don't want to be the joke of the world, and I don't want to be thought of as another Hitler swallowing up people.
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Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice by showing what's shamefully going on.
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I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great caution is to be used, that you do not make too much haste, nor attempt this cure too early, for fear lest you increase the mischief instead of remedying it.
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As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt moment.
