Ed Cunningham Quotes
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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I love America a lot. I really do.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're crazy. But he doesn't force it on you. He doesn't force anything on you, which really makes things easier.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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Who knows what will happen in five years' time.
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I just had a really crappy time in school and I spent a lot of time writing songs and not doing work. I started talking to Noah - Panda Bear - about recording a really solid album, spending a lot of time on it to get it to sound exactly the way we wanted it to.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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I take no credit at all. This is a talented team with a real desire to follow a specific style of play.
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I want a Sunday kind of love A love to last past Saturday night And I’d like to know it’s more than love at first sight
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Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring, the most basic part of love.
