Feist Quotes
I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I was an expert horseman.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.
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We all want to be the sexy girl.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
