Bryce Dessner Quotes
I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.
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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
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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.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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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.
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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.
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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?
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I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
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Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
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Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
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The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.
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I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.
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I have a lot of Jordans, a lot of Nikes, a lot of Blazers.
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I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.
