Bryce Dessner Quotes
We've played in places where there were more of us onstage than in the audience.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
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When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.
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I remember how to be a person by being around them.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.
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I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.
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Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.
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Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
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I think diva is an inevitable outcome of the industry, and I don't think it reflects on the person at all. You take a normal human being, and basically, for 24 hours, seven days a week, apart from sleeping, you introduce them to places and things almost every minute that are brand new.
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'Man,' said Terl, 'is an endangered species.'
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I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
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Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.
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We've played in places where there were more of us onstage than in the audience.
