Bryce Dessner Quotes
As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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The unspoken word never does harm.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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I am always searching for something different or something fresh, something hasn't been done. But the truth is, at the end of the day, we're all sort of retelling something. We're doing a version of something that's already been done.
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The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.
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Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution
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We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That's why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they're going to get a band hat on, and say people aren't acting the right way?
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I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
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As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.
