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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• My husband and I oddly have worked together a couple of times. We did a 'Veronica Mars' episode together. We didn't work together, but we were both in 'Ghost World.' We had a theater company in L.A., for a bunch of years. So, we've worked together a fair amount, and it's always just great fun.

  

  Lauren Bowles
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • World
  • Trying
  • Happy

• Amongst Indian celebrities, Shah Rukh is a great one to interview. He's a brilliant T.V. anchor, a people person, and enjoys talking.

  

  Cyrus Broacha
  • People
  • Great
  • Anchor

• I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.

  

  Christine Lagarde
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Power

• I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • Style

• I'm in a band with my three sisters called the Atomics, which is awesome.

  

  Lucky Blue Smith
  • Band
  • Awesome

• My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Present
  • Hero
  • Birthday

• But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?

  

  Frederick Marryat
  • Long
  • Small
  • City

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• It turns out that while I was in the hospital, the song went to number one, ... All in the same day, my transplant, the song, it was pretty intense. The guys called me on the phone and sang, 'Happy transplant to you.'

  

  Kevin Neil Hearn Barenaked Ladies
  • Song
  • Guys
  • Turns

• 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
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  • Catalog