Finneas (Finneas Baird O'Connell) Quotes

The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.

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• You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Done
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Chance
  • Note
  • Seldom

• I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Peaceful

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Religion

• I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Believe
  • School
  • Happy

• I worked hard to be accepted by the fashion community in ways beyond my physical appearance. In no time, though, I found myself surrendering to the industry's approval process. I felt like I needed validation from everyone. As a result, I lost sight of myself and what it meant to be happy, what it meant to be successful.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Community

• Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• My family were pretty big hippies.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Big

• There is no original truth, only original error.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Truth
  • Only
  • Original

• Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • World
  • Why

• Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Respect
  • City

• The little girl's creative, a repertoire that rings, And Hollywood is waiting, to see the way she swings. She'll be graduating, goin' on to higher things, The little girl from Central is gonna take on wings.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • She
  • Girl
  • Waiting

• As long as I'm here living and breathing, I'm going to be moving.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Long
  • Moving

• Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Up
  • Trying

• I love musical theatre. It's a passion of mine.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Passion
  • Theatre

• It's only a certain amount of days your friend's mom is gonna let you stay at they crib without feeling some type of way. So I'd stay two or three days, then they mom would be like, 'What's up with him? He got to leave unless he gonna pay for something.'

  

  Rakim Hasheem Allen
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Friend

• I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

  

  Penelope Keith

• Conversations with sisters can spark extremes of anger or extremes of love. Everything said between sisters carries meaning not only from what was just said but from all the conversations that came before - and 'before' can span a lifetime. The layers of meaning combine profound connection with equally profound competition.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Competition
  • Connection
  • Profound

• No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Masters
  • Accomplish

• Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Night
  • Brain
  • Feelings

• It's always a challenge to shoot a period film and not have it look like you hit the tea stain button in post.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Always
  • Challenge
  • Period

• The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.

  

  Finneas
  • Song
  • Brain
  • Catalog