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Bryce Dessner Quotes

We've played in places where there were more of us onstage than in the audience.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Places More Audience Where Us Than

What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one who wasn't an attorney. I may have been the only one who didn't work in a prosecutor's office. So I took a completely different point of view on how the city should be run. Very close to a business, very close on metrics and numbers.

Work Business City Me View Unique

Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel.

John Burnham Schwartz

Home Health History Literature More

I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain.

Myself Pain I Am Sorry Think Back

This resolution is further proof that Congress stands firmly behind our troops and remains resolved to pursue those responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, until they are discovered, detained, and punished.

Resolution Congress Responsible Proof

I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Good Food Quality People Good Food

I don't have much time to sit and watch a lot of TV. And I can't really binge-watch.

Time Watch Sit Much TV Really

No one can be immune from our laws; everyone must be held to account.

Everyone Laws Must Our Immune Held

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

Control Think Design Always Over

When I was 11 years old, my mother bought me one of those chemistry sets, and I stayed with it.

William Lipscomb

Mother Me Chemistry Old Years Those

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

Pedro Almodovar

Love Mother Portrait Want More Her

Government spending clearly needs some adjusting. But a budget is a statement of our priorities, and balancing our spending on the backs of our nation's seniors is not the right approach.

Government Budget Priorities Right

I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.

Success Failure I Am Edge Living

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