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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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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When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
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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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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.
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If you like somebody's work - just go and see them. However, don't ask for their autograph. A lot of people came and asked me for my autograph - and it's creepy. What I did is read everything they published first... and correct them. That's what they really want. Every smart person wants to be corrected, not admired.
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The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.
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Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'
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I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance deeper into the vale of years, I live with constantly increasing gusto and excitement. I am sure it all means something; in the last analysis, I am an optimist because I believe in God. Those who have no faith are quite naturally pessimists and I do not blame them.
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Art is a way of life.
