Feist Quotes
'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.
Quotes to Explore
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.
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I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.
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I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it got to the point where I started mimicking people - Michael Jackson or whoever. People started to notice I could hold a tone. The bug was always there.
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A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.
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'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.
