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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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 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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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
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Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.
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I love who I am. I love what I've become.
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You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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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.
