Eric Bachmann Quotes
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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Anything you want to know, you go to Quora and get it. And at the same time, give people a platform that is easy to use for sharing the knowledge.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
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People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.
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I am a fan of wuxia.
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Publishing is not my world.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language-the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
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A lot of people thought I was gay.
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I'm over this thing of being champion, having the title.
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We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'
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Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.
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It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.
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Perhaps it's because a writer lives in Brooklyn that he'd want to get away from it. It can be very sustaining, this community of writers - sometimes it's the feeling of many hands giving you a boost. But all that identical ambition can be choking, too. The many hands slide up to your throat.
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I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.
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My favorite song as a boy was definitely 'Downtown' recorded by Petula Clark. I still love it! And the original cast recording of 'Gypsy'; I played my mother's cast recordings until there was no vinyl left.
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I got extreme street credibility from my high school-aged son. He's like, 'Dad, the fact that you're in 'American Horror Story' is absolutely cool!' I was like, 'Okay, but I'm not sure if it's appropriate for you.' And he was like, 'Dad, come on! I'm a New York City kid - in high school.'
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I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.
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I think you just have to have some rapport with the song.
