Bryce Dessner Quotes

My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I was studying classical guitar very seriously.

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• All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Love
  • History

• Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Oil
  • Fish

• There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Problem
  • Nothing
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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
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• I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Help
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• We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
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• Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.

  

  Rand Beers
  • May
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• The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.

  

  Manika
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• The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

  

  Karan Johar
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• You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.

  

  Irene Dunne
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• The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

  

  Barry Eisler
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• You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Change
  • Relationships

• 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Greatest

• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Man
  • Political
  • Speech

• I want people to learn what democracy means.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Learn

• With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.

  

  Valerie Cruz
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• You fall in love with someone, you don't know this person yet, and you get to know this person. That's what happens when I fall in love with a character, and I want to be this person.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Character
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• I've grown to love it, but I'm not like a lot of other people who were always crazy horror fans like Eli Roth or Quentin Tarantino.

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Crazy

• I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

  

  Lotte Lehmann

• Since the last tour I have done a lot of extensive travel to Iraq, Kuwait, Siberia, South Korea and other places and picked up some hopefully interesting stories. We are living in interesting times and as bad as things are, I draw considerable inspiration from some of the things I'm seeing and people I'm meeting. I'm looking forward to getting out on the road and talking about it all.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
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• My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I was studying classical guitar very seriously.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
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