Bryce Dessner Quotes

The danger of a rock band is repeating oneself. It's our greatest fear - that it evolves into the myopia of a semi-successful band that's in love with its own shadow.

Bryce Dessner

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You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

Joan Armatrading

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It's long been my dream to have myself declared incompetent so I could just practice all day, and blog, and not have to take care of any normal life things.

Jeremy Denk

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Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.

Mel Brooks

SimpleFunSweetCrazyWeirdYou

Just so we're clear, Mark Watney is who I want to be. He has all the qualities I like about myself magnified without any of the qualities I dislike. Mark Watney isn't afraid to fly.

Andy Weir

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Dance is such a stressful environment.

Mia Wasikowska

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I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

Steve Carell

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Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts him. You'd be a disturbed individual if you came out and said, 'I love these characters'.

Roger Avary

LoveMyselfWorldYouSaidWrite

You write a book, it's out for however many years, and with the passing of time, you're not the same person. I'm not the same person I was when I wrote those books; I'm not even the same person I was when I started writing 'Beg.' I had many shifts spiritually, and one of them was in the use of language.

Rory Freedman

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The process of communication with the afterlife - more of an exchange than a conversation - has always fascinated me.

Rory MacLean

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I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.

Michelle Rodriguez

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India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

Joschka Fischer

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Part of what you learn about life is that a wrecking ball can come out of nowhere, and it isn't just going to take out your left toe. It can hit you right in the middle and take you down.

Dinesh D'Souza

LifeLearnYouDownRightOut

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