Alex Ebert Quotes
I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road skipped around from classical to Western to new age to hyper-cinematic.

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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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'Twin Peaks' fans, it's a hardcore group of people.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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In the U.K., journalists are a little bit more ruthless than in Denmark. I have a feeling the tabloid press in the U.K. is pretty harsh.
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I put my family first, and that's why for a long time, you didn't see me dating or hear about me dating or hear about me out. I had other focuses in my life, and that would be my family and my work.
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It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.
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I always want to make my records sound great so they'll stand the test of time, and that takes a lot of work.
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I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road skipped around from classical to Western to new age to hyper-cinematic.