Dana Carvey Quotes
If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
Quotes to Explore
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
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I found the brick-making process fascinating - how, after being burnt, the brick would come out strong. I liked to sit on the stack of bricks and look as far as I could. I'd do the same at a hillock near my school - just sit on top at leisure and enjoy the feeling of being on top of the world.
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I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
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Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.
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Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
