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 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 -
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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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.
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I'm part Filipino, part Japanese, part Chinese, part Malaysian, and part Spanish, and all those people, they love their karaoke. So whenever my family got together, we'd all karaoke.
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I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see themselves in relation to people of color if they want to survive and even thrive.
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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.
