Sydney Wayser (CLARA-NOVA) Quotes
The industry will push you around and tug at you. They’ll tell you what you should do and who you should sound like. The truth is the music industry needs you. You are the artist. You create a story out of thin air. That is a gift. Keep it close and keep it flexible. Use it everyday.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
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I guess I was phenomenally lucky that I was introduced to dancing because I'm suited to it. It would be very weird if you had this natural ability for something and you never discovered it. It must happen all the time.
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I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.
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Having been connected with industry during my entire life, it seems eminently proper that I should turn back, in part, the proceeds of that activity with the hope of promoting a broader as well as a better understanding of the economic principles and national policies which have characterized American enterprise down through the years.
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Neither fairness nor justice, neither reality nor humanity can be simulated or manipulated by wires or remote controls.
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Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That's what change looks like.
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When we overthrew Mubarak, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very naive and very unexperienced in revolutions, we thought that that was it. It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive.
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The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.
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When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
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Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.
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I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.
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The industry will push you around and tug at you. They’ll tell you what you should do and who you should sound like. The truth is the music industry needs you. You are the artist. You create a story out of thin air. That is a gift. Keep it close and keep it flexible. Use it everyday.
