Bryce Dessner Quotes
Typically, people think, 'Oh the hippies and the punks hated each other,' or that those things don't go together musically. Sometimes that is true, but we had equal parts of both in our musical DNA.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.
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I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers.
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I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing. I didn't know that, nobody.. told me that. But when homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid.
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Typically, people think, 'Oh the hippies and the punks hated each other,' or that those things don't go together musically. Sometimes that is true, but we had equal parts of both in our musical DNA.
