Jonny Greenwood Quotes
If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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In 1995, I made a website, and half the web came to see it, and I thought, 'Man, that's it, that's what I want to do.'
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Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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There's no pensions for old prize fighters.
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If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.
