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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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.
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I said I would get better with each baby, and I have.
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Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.
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My life has shifted to different levels financially, in terms of fame as a result of being blessed enough to be able to share my music with the world, and what that has done for me. Despite all of that, I always want people to listen to my music and be able to relate to it as well as to me.
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When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
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Art is a way of life.
