Neil Portnow (Neil R. Portnow) Quotes
We as a music community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
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I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom.
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Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.
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She’d walked a delicate line with commendable skill.But sometimes the best case wasn’t good enough.
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There is only so much you can do if you're pulling weight and there's nobody there to play off of. You can't have those beautiful moments with new actors who are so worried about everything else but the moment.
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You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.
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I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.
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A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.
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Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
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New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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He's certainly welcome to bring us any kind of information he can. I think just the fact that he is coming might spur some interest in the community.
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I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.
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We as a music community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.
