Jenny Lewis Quotes

I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want to hear what you've done and what you've contributed - but never listening to that playback kind of removes the intellectual part of making music, and it removes the tendency to be revisionist.

Jenny Lewis

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MusicJoyListeningThinkMusicians

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

Amy Sedaris

SchoolImagineGoingPublic School

I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have the darkness in my own soul to be able to tap into it, unfortunately.

Stephen Merchant

DarknessSoulBlueBraveWishDark

I love some kind of pressure in the air. Some kind of weirdness in the crowd, good or bad. That's what we thrive on.

Mike McCready

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I was an exchange student for a summer, and most of that summer was in Ukraine. I used to say 'the Ukraine' until I was there, and one of the Ukrainian college students I got to be good friends with, he said, 'Do you say I'm going back to the Texas,' and I said, 'No.' He said, 'We don't say we're going back to the Ukraine, either.'

Louie Gohmert

GoodCollegeTexasFriendsYouBack

As much time and effort, emotion, anger, love, joy that you put into another human being, you're not guaranteed to receive that back. And that's OK. That's alright.

Logic

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I'm a member of the American Chemical Society, and in its magazine, the 'Chemical and Engineering News,' there was an interview of Vince Gilligan when he had first started the television show 'Breaking Bad.' And in that interview, he was stating how important it was to him that he get the science right for the show.

Donna Nelson

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I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

Brody Armstrong

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You can be more creative in acting by bringing your character to life and bringing a piece of you that wasn't there before. You could have five different actors play one role, and all five of them would be so different because each person brings a different piece of them into it.

Arden Cho

LifeCharacterCreativeYouActing

Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.

Atul Gawande

HeroDayMedicalMeAliveFirst

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Sydney Smith

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Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.

Norman Lamm

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People try to do better than other people. It's an incentive.

Renato Dulbecco

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