Nicholson Baker Quotes
From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
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For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.
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I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
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I don't have kids, but in many ways I feel I've had them already. I don't want to say I raised my brothers - that sounds too strong - but actually I do feel like that a bit.
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Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
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From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.
