Nicholas Thorburn Quotes
I like writing stories. That's what I like to do. That's the way I see it, but with every song I get sucked into feeling something.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix of growing up and finding yourself, that's more of a relatable tone than being Captain America and having the country's weight on your shoulders.
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I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
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Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.
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There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to make all the sketches and I can see the vision of the movie and then I start my job.
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He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
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If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
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We do it because we love to play music and that's what we're all about.
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I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.
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We want to open digg up to just about anyone and everyone that wants to express their interest in any type of news story or Web content.
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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
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You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.
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I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.
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When you go into to vacationing with kids, what people don't get is that there is a portion of it that's going to be unpleasant because you're traveling with children. When people have these expectations that it's going to be perfect or amazing, that has never been my experience.
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Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.
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At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time.
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I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.
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I'm enjoying simplifying things.
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I like writing stories. That's what I like to do. That's the way I see it, but with every song I get sucked into feeling something.
