Flume Quotes
It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
Quotes to Explore
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.
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As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
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If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.
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Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
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We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
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I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.
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They should all have their own speech patterns with their own tics and little foibles. It's fun working all that out ahead of time.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
