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David Byrne Quotes

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: scottish
Birth: May 14, 1952

Topics

Beautiful Picture Camera Out Take

Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important.

People World Story You Edge Three

Grit may carry risk because it's about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.

Angela Duckworth

Grit Risk Eggs Carry May Basket

We've always had this experience that things take long, but I'm 100% convinced that our principles will in the end prevail. No one knew how the Cold War would end at the time, but it did end. This is within our living experience... I'm surprised at how fainthearted we sometimes are and how quickly we lose courage.

Courage Time Experience War Cold

The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

Truth People Truth Is Find Try Take

American workers have faced serious difficulties in the labor market since the first oil shock in 1973. Since that time, the pace of productivity advance has slowed for reasons which are still not understood, lowering the rate at which living standards have advanced.

Time American Serious Labor Living

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

Always Names English Example Read

There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is badly needed.

Action Doubt United Clear No Doubt

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

Family History Tears Trail Know Boy

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

Phillip E. Johnson

Truth Power Science Political Wrong

I was a funky kid.

The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.

Father Daughter Decision Me Book

I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.

School College High School Go Want

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