Daisy Berkowitz Quotes
What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
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You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.
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Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.
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What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
