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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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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Some people are just right for you.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
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For most people who have or who do identify as or with [song] Straight Edge, I feel like for most people, they're just trying to do the right thing.
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A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to grow with these songs if you really want a long artistic career.
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I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.
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We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.
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What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
