Bryce Dessner Quotes
I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.Bryce Dessner The National
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
Maceo Parker -
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
Karel Capek -
It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
Rachel McAdams -
The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
Taylor Mali -
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde -
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. Wilson
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It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
Adam Clayton U2 -
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
Jackie Kennedy -
I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.
Gail Collins -
Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
Ralph Bakshi -
Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
Karl Malone -
Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
Karen Duffy
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Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.
Vanity -
She cried in a voice that hit me between the eyebrows and went out at the back of my head.
P. G. Wodehouse -
My father always would say, 'My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister', but it’s not what I wanted to do. I would say, 'No, Papa, I will never go into politics.' As I’ve said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me … But I accepted the responsibility and I’ve never wavered in my commitment.
Benazir Bhutto -
He has not lived in vain who learns to be unruffled by loss, by gain, by, joy, by pain.
Angelus Silesius -
Een mens kan eenzaam zijn ondanks de liefde van velen, want voor niemand is hij toch 'de liefste'.
Anne Frank -
Who's the Knight-Mayor?' I cried. Instead Of answering my question, 'Well, if you don't know THAT,' he said, 'Either you never go to bed, Or you've a grand digestion!
Lewis Carroll
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Edmund Waller -
The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
Jack Henry Abbott -
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Desiderius Erasmus -
I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?'
Jessica Capshaw -
Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.
Sarah Vowell -
I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.
Bryce Dessner The National