Aaron Dessner Quotes
The Planned Parenthood 7" project is an example of us putting our noses to the grindstone on and trying to make a little difference. Working on that was my way of handling my own emotions about Donald Trump. I was talking about politics for so long, I just kind of ran out of juice on that.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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Such a gift might be easily taken back again.
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I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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The Planned Parenthood 7" project is an example of us putting our noses to the grindstone on and trying to make a little difference. Working on that was my way of handling my own emotions about Donald Trump. I was talking about politics for so long, I just kind of ran out of juice on that.
