Liz Phair Quotes

I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?

Liz Phair

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LoveMusicCharacterMomentDriving

I'm constantly dodging people in L.A. There are some people I don't ever wanna see again, but if you live where you grew up, you're running into people constantly.

Jenny Lewis

LivePeopleYouSome PeopleSeeUp

'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply of spending cuts.

John Lanchester

RealityRealOutAbstractSomething

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

Robert Musil

ManStupidDeepLiteratureHead

You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to stay level.

Matt Haig

GoodBetterGetting BetterYouRise

I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

Michael Ealy

RacismThinkWantWithinChanged

At 14, I was beehived out. I'm glad there are no pictures!

Mia Goth

PicturesOutGlad

When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.

Anand Giridharadas

GodPeopleTreatSayingThinkYou

For so many years, I was trying to beat my hair into submission, trying to get it to look like someone else's hair, and I didn't know how. I remember going through a phase where I even put beer in my hair, because I was told that would make it smooth and curly.

Tracee Ellis Ross

BeerHairSomeoneRememberLook

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

Ron Paul

WarSayingGoWayConservativeFull

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

WordsLiteraturePicturesWayImage

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

Mohsin Hamid

IslamRaceCharacteristics

You can be an absolute woman and also be smart and tough and not lose your femininity.

Priyanka Chopra

WomanSmartToughYouLoseYour

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