Bryce Dessner Quotes
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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I love Disney. I know that some Disney stars want to break out of the Disney mold, but no, if they let me, I would work with Disney until I die.
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No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
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It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.
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If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
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Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.
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There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.
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You don't come to our shows if you want to look cool.
