Maya Beiser Quotes
Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
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I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.
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Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the way their biology informs some of their expression.
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In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
