Bryce Dessner Quotes
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
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Don't tell people you're smart; let them find out on their own.
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When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father quickly found work at what was then the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks.
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The structure of my life has changed a little. But we no longer have the time that we had, to be with family. Sometimes you can't even spend any time with friends because you are working so hard. You're either on tour or on promotion or suddenly we're taping the soap opera.
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Art is a way of life.
