- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.
- Collaboration
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- Nov 07, 2020
Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way.
- Nov 07, 2020
The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no reason that America can't compete in a global economy, and I love being one small proof point in that.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
- Flattened
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs.
- Point Of View
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a theoretical point of view, it is very hard to imagine how gravity could avoid being quantized.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one just tried to invent a universe on one's own, it would probably end up being a much less colorful and interesting universe than the one that we live in.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020