Ken Hill Quotes
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
Quotes to Explore
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I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.
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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
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If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
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I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.
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An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'
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A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.
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I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.
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A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
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I've been stalked.
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The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.
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Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.
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The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
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There's no simple formula here. But we must try as best we can to balance isolation and engagement, pressure and incentives, so that human rights and dignity are advanced over time.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.
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Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
