Rivers Cuomo Quotes
I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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The fact that we haven't faced another major terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11 is a very significant achievement, and one that's easy to forget - it's the dog that doesn't bark.
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My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think.
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Who am I to sit here and say I'm going to change the face of music?
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I think people look at me different when they see I'm dressed well. They pay attention. They know I'm about something.
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I don't like being disappointed by somebody I trust. Fortunately, it rarely happens.
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I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.
