Stephen Karam Quotes
So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
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The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
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I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
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Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.
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I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for.
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So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.
