Bryce Dessner Quotes
I call The National my family, and I'll be doing that as long as I want to.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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I'm going to outplay you. That's the mentality I have, and you should want to outplay me.
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Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.
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There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record it for the rest of our long journey. We take perfect snapshots, an album to despair over. We trim the edges and place them in plastic. We tuck the scrapbook away to take out in our ruined times.
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I call The National my family, and I'll be doing that as long as I want to.
