Hamid Drake Quotes
The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
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You said the anger would come backjust as the love did.
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I think writers are born, not made.
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Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.
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You don't need most beauty products. They're an emotional purchase. That's why the conversations are really important. What choice do you have but to ask your customer what they want?
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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When I moved to America, everybody was asking, 'Why the hell are you going to America? It's over; you should be going east.' But it turned out our timing was miraculous.
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Actually, no, but I am close to the people who are working on Chicken Little, and I'm very close to the people over at Pixar. I mean, as far as stories are concerned, almost everything we have could be told that way.
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Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
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Go to the people and live among them in order to know them and learn from them.
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The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.
