Bryce Dessner Quotes

David Harrington asked me to write a piece for Kronos Quartet for a performance in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. I live just two blocks from the park and spend many mornings running around it. The park for me symbolizes much of what I love about New York, especially the stunning diversity of Brooklyn with its myriad cultures and communities.

Bryce Dessner

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LoveLiveDiversityNew YorkMeNew

Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.

Steve Albini

GoodChildPeopleFreeSpeedYou

In combat operations in places like Afghanistan, we often confronted the specter of dangerous people with powerful weapons who were a threat to their community and to our soldiers. Our aim was to quickly determine who in that community was a legitimate actor who could be trusted with a firearm and who was not.

Stanley A. McChrystal

CommunityPeoplePowerfulDangerous

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.

Ruth Wilson

LifeBeautifulMeActionFrustration

I love how chic yet simple ballet style is for everyday dressing.

Mary Helen Bowers

LoveStyleSimpleEverydayDressing

What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.

Joseph Stiglitz

KnowledgeResourcesGapMuch

I always liked the guys who lasted a long time in the match and had endurance. People like Ric Flair going an hour at the 1992 Rumble, or Shawn Michaels and the British Bulldog being one and two in 1995 and both lasting until the end.

Dean Ambrose

TimePeopleEndLongEnduranceTwo

I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours.

Christy Romano

BusyNeverLittleBecauseWorking

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

Clint Eastwood

SoulDeepMy SoulRebelLying

Scoring goals is nice, but I'm nowhere near Platini. I hope I can get closer to him.

Antoine Griezmann

GoalsHopeI CanNiceHimNowhere

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Anthony Burgess

IntellectualIntelligentMayHeToo

You can do a movie and hope it may be great, but until you have seen it, you don't know. I loved 'Rampart.' I love that one called 'The Hi-Low Country' that Steven Frears shot.

Woody Harrelson

LoveHopeGreatLovedYouCountry

I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.

Phoebe Snow

EnergyYouBodyKnowIndependent

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