Ken Hill Quotes
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
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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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In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.
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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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on ancient poetry Nog Nog! Mkellen bebog! V'luch Matuch Maluch M'tog!
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I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so language for me doesn't reflect the world, it extends the world, so that it becomes larger and more fantastic and less mired in this school shooting bullshit. It actually builds a future - that's how evolution occurs.
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I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.
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Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.
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Prior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information.
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Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
