Terry Gross Quotes
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If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.
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I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist.
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I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
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Many objects of our three-dimensional perceptual world are not only chiral but appear in nature in two versions, related at least ideally, as a chiral object and its mirror image.
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You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.
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Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.
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Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.
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There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.
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Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.
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Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like an ecstasy, the stomachs of astonished gastronomes. Bouillabaisse is one of those classic dishes whose glory has encircled the world, and the miracle consists of this: there are as many bouillabaisses as there are good chefs or cordon bleus. Each brings to his own version his special touch.
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I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here.
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When you aren't working, you really want to emulate the real version of yourself.
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If there is enough space on radio for Busted and McFly, who are basically the same band, or for 50,000 versions of Stereophonics and Coldplay, there must be enough room for all of us.
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To me, to be political means you associate your work with a larger number of people’s living conditions, and that includes both mental and physical conditions. And you try to use your work to affect the situation.
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I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.
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If you can get to a girl and make a difference in her life, you're actually going to have a greater impact on a woman's life. If you don't get to her as a girl, you may not be able ever to help her as a woman.
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I can say the Lord's prayer in 10 seconds.
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My dad was the funniest guy I ever knew.
