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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Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.
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I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in.
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I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I was raised in it, from way back. I'm not putting jazz down, but I'm not a jazz singer...I've recorded all kinds of music, but (to them) I'm either a jazz singer or a blues singer. I can't sing a blues – just a right-out blues – but I can put the blues in whatever I sing. I might sing 'Send In the Clowns' and I might stick a little bluesy part in it, or any song. What I want to do, music-wise, is all kinds of music that I like, and I like all kinds of music.
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A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding.
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Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-" "Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant?" "You," he said. "And me.
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I think you just have to have some rapport with the song.
