Bryan Kest Quotes
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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I don't think fashion is evil.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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Prince and I happen to think alike.
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For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
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I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
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Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.
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Just because we can think does not mean we are separate from everything.
