Evan Dando Quotes

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

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• An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Purpose
  • Insurance
  • Accomplishment

• Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Review

• It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Lived

• I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

  

  Harold Prince
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • First
  • Say
  • Season

• In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Energy
  • Attention

• Looking back now toward the startYou said you thought I'd lost my pathAnd I asked if you still considered love an artAnd you said "No, I think it's more a craft"And I just turned and laughedI just had to turn and laugh.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Lost

• It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Perfect

• Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I, I, sick with grief for the buried past, I, smoldering on a slow fire, having lost everything and forgotten all, would be fated to commemorate a man so full of strength and will and bright inventions, who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me, hiding the tremor of his mortal pain.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Lost

• If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Character
  • Sexy

• The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.

  

  Martin Winterkorn
  • World

• The opportunity here in the U.S. is so unique because we are so diverse, with so many different cultures living together. Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists, all with their own connections to the spiritual aspects of food and with lessons that we can learn from each other.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Different
  • Together
  • Opportunity

• My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

  

  Joe Lhota
  • American
  • Father
  • Dream

• At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.

  

  Joe Alwyn
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Theatre

• When you're not as accessible, you get in a tent and get in your own head, and you start doing things that are a little out of touch. I think we've seen it happen with certain artists... people can't touch them; they're not touching people. They're only touching people in their circle.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • People

• 'Law & Order' was amazing but so consuming, I couldn't get to the stage.

  

  Jesse L. Martin
  • Law
  • Amazing

• The way I do it is there's never recording 'sessions.' One finishes, the next one starts. It's just continuous.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala

• Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data.

  

  Anders Hejlsberg

• As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to go out the window. I decided the history in the books should be like spice in a soup - a little went a long way. Like cilantro.

  

  Deborah Harkness
  • Long
  • History
  • Stop

• Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Imagination

• In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • May
  • Star

• I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Remember

• Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

  

  Evan Dando
  • History
  • Bands
  • Consumption