Bryce Dessner Quotes
I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.
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When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.
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For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.
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Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.
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I watched the grey villages limp by, the wind tearing at torn posters of long-done events. What I needed, of course, was a drink.
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Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.
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I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls is a bit like rubbing people's faces in it, saying 'I am considerably richer than you.' It is completely unnecessary.
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No weapon is sharper than will.
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Drive around through the state of Oklahoma, and you find some areas that really need to be improved.
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We have a cancer within, close to the presidency, that's growing.
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I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.
