R. Murray Schafer Quotes
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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The leaders of Europe always seem to emerge from the same elite, the same general frame of mind, the same schools, and the same institutions that rear generation after generation of politicians to this day. They take turns implementing the same policies.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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Women are always glad to listen when you discourse upon love...
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A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.
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When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.
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I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.
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I wasn't the best frogman out there.
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My older brother took me to Woody Allen double features when I was still teething.
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I started singing backgrounds for Mary Mary and Usher during 'Confessions.' Then I jumped to working with Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott; jumped again to Kanye West, The Killers. I kept saying, 'OK, this is the last time; then I get to do my music.'
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Health management is my passion, and I hope to further my career in that area in the future.
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I think what's exciting about playing a villain - particularly a villain who's totally unapologetic about their evil intentions - is that it's not anything remotely like what you get to do in real life. You're never allowed to be evil and not feel bad about it afterwards, let alone be evil, period.
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We are building towards the future where people need not own their own cars.
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I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.
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Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances.
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I wanted to do 'Fargo' rather than do a TV production. I've been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that's about that I don't want to be away from home for that long because it's a long time to be away your home country and my family.
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I'd love to find a really good Brazilian project, an up and coming director or something. I wouldn't want to do the typical favela story, Brazilian cinema has a lot more to offer than just that.
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Theosophy was both a philosophy and a religion, preaching the doctrine of reincarnation as well as spiritual evolution.
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In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.
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You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.
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In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.
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When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous.
