Noah Baumbach Quotes
That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
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I just love to see people having a good time.
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That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
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Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
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I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years...
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Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle, then don't have a Twitter or Facebook account. Just be yourself. Be who you want to be.
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I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.
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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.
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I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.
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Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.
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That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
