Gary Rydstrom Quotes
If we do our jobs well and throw in a little evangelizing, we can make sound as important a part of filmmaking as it should be.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
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Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.
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Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.
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With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.
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Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.
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If we do our jobs well and throw in a little evangelizing, we can make sound as important a part of filmmaking as it should be.
