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Andrew Bird Quotes

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

Andrew Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 11, 1973

Topics

Together Collaboration Performance

My baseline function is I'm usually really happy and optimistic. I think I really genuinely like being alive, and I've got a spring in my step - that's what I've been like all my life.

Jenny Slate

Life Step Happy Spring Think Alive

Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

Andrew Weil

Mind Control Achieving Breath Tool

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

Michael Caine

January America Movies Garbage Out

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

John Woo

Team Hard Two Audience Up Film

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

Stephen Ambrose

Life Vote Never Got Been He

In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.

Sun Myung Moon

Man Evil Cheat Sovereignty Must

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

Russell Baker

Life Dreams Women Dangerous Young

Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.

Michael Winter

Sky World Game Hockey Trees Find

I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.

Mitt Romney

Love Believe America I Believe Where

Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.

Lisa Kudrow

Uncomfortable Lose Dignity Person

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Douglas Coupland

Relationship People Relationships Had

You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.

Colson Whitehead

Change People You Buildings Down