Miriam Toews Quotes
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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I'm a huge fan of Flying Lotus. I like The XX's stuff.
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During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.
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Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.
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I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.
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The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I'd known that I wouldn't have tried to hook it.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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I will forever be proud to call myself a Bruin and will never forget the memories that were made here.
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I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window.
