Glenn Kelman Quotes

Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world.

Glenn Kelman

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Growing UpWorldProcessDifferences

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

John L. Lewis

LiveFaithAmericanLaborRight

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

John Robert Seeley

MindWorldSeemHalfAbsenceFit

I really believe in albums, even though some people believe the year of the album has passed. I love singular pop songs or tracks, but what really affects me most deeply is if there's an hour of music or 45 minutes of music that flows really well and tells a story.

St. Lucia

LoveMusicPeopleMeBelieveStory

I don't care what 'Pitchfork' says. They write from a place that's a little too self-aware for me to really give a damn about what they're talking about.

Jason Isbell

MeCareTalkingPlaceDamnWrite

It's easy to be silly in real life, but making stuff up onstage, that seemed hard. Better to be the funny person off-the-cuff in the room than to risk being unfunny onstage.

Janet Varney

LifeFunnyBetterSillyEasyPerson

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

Colin Greenwood

GuitarMoreDifficultKidTexture

I still use a typewriter from time to time, but because I can't type as well as I used to, I really don't use one very much.

William Jay Smith

TimeTypewriterUsedBecauseWell

The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous.

Pierre Schaeffer

WorldDangerousMoreThingsJust

Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.

Phil Silvers

DownBeingMovieThemTurnsKramer

Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways.

Sharon Van Etten

LearningDailyNew YorkPeopleCity

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

Twyla Tharp

EducationGoodDisciplineTalent

Modernity and technology are not going to mitigate the need, the reality, of face-to-face combat, and I don't care who it is - when you put a man against a woman in hand-to-hand combat, the chance is the man is going to win... This is a physiological issue, not a culture issue.

Todd Wilcox

TechnologyCultureWomanManWin

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