William Gilmore Simms Quotes
There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
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Ambition aspires to descend.
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There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.
