Lee DeWyze Quotes
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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My father had very little formal education.
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I think I've slayed my long jump demons.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.
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Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.
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I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
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I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. I've never really taken an extended break, so I'd like to see what a vacation is really like.
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I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.
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Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
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The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
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To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.
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It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.
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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal.
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Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.
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Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.
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Whoever you're playing against, you want to do as well as you can.
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There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.
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When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.
