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 ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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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 -
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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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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Fear is destructive. Fear and creativity don't mix. Ultimately, it doesn't do you any good.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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I think we all have the same spirituality deep inside and we grow to learn more about it all the time, and we try very hard to become better people as we grow. We search all the time for the truth. We learn more about the world and we can't have thoughts like, "We are better than them" or "They are not good enough for God". This is very bad way of thinking, you know?
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Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.
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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.
