Bryce Dessner Quotes
My grandmother was born in Russia, and she came through Poland on her way to America in the early 20s. She moved to Brooklyn.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.
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I want to show that I'm a real teenager, not some fantasized Hollywood kid.
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The wise decision by President Obama to grant some undocumented immigrants the right to remain in the United States for two years without the threat of deportation is already benefitting the country.
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Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
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Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.
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My grandmother was born in Russia, and she came through Poland on her way to America in the early 20s. She moved to Brooklyn.
