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 think the truth about male friendship is often left out of the media, and it's that it has a million different shades, because masculinity has a million different forms.
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My own notion is that it is very unsportsmanlike ever to mention fraud. Accept anything. Then explain it your way. Anything that assimilates with one explanation, must have assimilable relations, to some degree, with all other explanations, if all explanations are somewhere continuous.
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The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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Art is a way of life.
