Sam Tsui Quotes
My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.
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I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.
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The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.
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I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family, nobody would raise their voice at all.
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My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
