Andrew Bird Quotes
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers.
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Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.
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Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.
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When you're a kid and practice on clay, you're always, 'Oh, I wish I could win Roland Garros.'
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I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.
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There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
