Andrew Bird Quotes
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?
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If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.
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Say what you want about Maroon 5 not making music like the kind found on 'Songs About Jane,' the fact remains that they know how to write a really good pop song that highlights lead singer Adam Levine's falsetto.
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Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.
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The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
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The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.
