Nicolas Godin Quotes
Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we have melody and we have the song before, so if the keyboard sound fits very well, it takes its artistic direction. We play the machines and the machines play us.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.
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Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.
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There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.
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Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we have melody and we have the song before, so if the keyboard sound fits very well, it takes its artistic direction. We play the machines and the machines play us.
