Gavin Bryars Quotes
I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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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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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.
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We went on to become the No. 1 band in the country for three or four years. And that was probably the worst thing that could have happened to us.
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I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
