Simon Van Booy Quotes
Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
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I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
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I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.
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Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.
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A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did know was there but had avoided.
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Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
