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Bryce Dessner Quotes

Inviting artists to do something, you want it to be a place where they're going to feel challenged and excited and that will maybe open up some new doorway in their own lives or their own creative practice.

Bryce Dessner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 23, 1976

Topics

Creative Practice Feel You Place

Now that I'm an adult and have a big say in what we eat on Christmas Day, turkey doesn't even make it on to the starting grid for consideration. It isn't just my least favourite meat; it's my least favourite protein.

John Lanchester

Day Now Say Christmas Eat Meat

I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.

Anna May Wong

Now Hollywood Old Hong Kong Star

I grew up in Mammoth Lakes, and they shot an episode up there, and I was hanging around when I was on the ski team. I was very, very involved in athletics, so I didn't watch a lot of TV, but I definitely watched a lot of '90210.'

Trevor Donovan

Team Up Hanging Watch Involved Shot

'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater.

Roger Ebert

Best End Doubt Way Vampire See

I have an African gray parrot; her name is Eli. We thought she was a boy. And a blue-streaked lory named Marco. He's 10. And a yellow and green parakeet, Petey. He's very cute, but he's getting old.

Roz Chast

Cute Yellow Green Thought Name Boy

I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified.

Rosie O'Donnell

Words I Am Opinion Think Sitting

Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is the most awful, terminal nonsense.

Mike Bartlett

People Theatre Bad Nonsense Still

I have been away a great deal in the daytime, occasionally at night.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

Great Night Away Deal Been Daytime

The trajectory of nearly all technology follows this downward and widening path: by the time a regular person is able to create his own TV network, it doesn't matter anymore that I have or am on a network.

David Shields

Technology Path Time Create Person

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

Christie Hefner

Success Think Financial Measurement

The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.

Princess Margaret

Queen Walking Down Stairs Person

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

Peter Dinklage

Railroad Never Abandoned Lived