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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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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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 not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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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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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
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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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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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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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I'm the type of person that you'd walk past and go, 'I think I went to school with her,' or 'I know her and I can't quite place it.' It certainly isn't, 'I know her full name, and I can tell you who she is.'
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I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.
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I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'
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As an athlete, confidence makes me more competitive and helps me perform better.
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Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.
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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.
