Ed O'Brien Quotes
When we first recorded Fake Plastic Trees it was terrible! It sounded like Guns 'n' Roses. It was awful! It was like loud guitars... you could envisage one of these dreadful hilltop, Grand Canyon-esque videos. It was long hair flowing.
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When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would be okay for me to go live on a farm outside the city so I could play.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
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I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.
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Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
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I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
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Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.
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The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space … I'm very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: 'The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!'
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Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.
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That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.
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I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.
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Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
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I remember, when I started acting officially, I was unbelievably green. My first audition tapes were just horrendous.
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One day I'd love a house in the country, with some chickens, dogs and kids.
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Are we alone? Many, many people on planet Earth want to know. We are on the cusp of being able to answer that question... because of the investments we're making in space technology.
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Janet Jackson - I enjoy her style and her dancing.
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Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.
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I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.
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I've come to recognize songwriting as something that I do, and I want to be good at that. At that craft, if you like. I want to practice it.
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I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.
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The more producers I talked to, the more I got looked at like I was crazy for wanting to make a live-sounding album.
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You rarely get money out of labels, except for when they open up a budget for a project. Other than that, it's a do-or-die type thing.
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I like to hang with the boys and I like to prove that I can be one of the boys, if not better.
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When we first recorded Fake Plastic Trees it was terrible! It sounded like Guns 'n' Roses. It was awful! It was like loud guitars... you could envisage one of these dreadful hilltop, Grand Canyon-esque videos. It was long hair flowing.
