Ben Lovett Quotes
A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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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'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
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I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I'm influenced a lot by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, even Paul Weller - Billie Holiday as well: People who wrote and sang songs that were reflective of their times. I quite like that. I quite admire that.
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I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice.
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
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I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.
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A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
