- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Quotes
On fresh starts, new cities and beginning again.
Many of the quotes here trace what's new: a new city, a new circle of people, a new chapter after school. Several reflect specifically on relocating and adjusting to a very different pace of life. For more on that theme, see our City quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before, new approaches to chord sequences, riffs, rhythms, so it becomes composition. It's not like the music I'm doing is just a single thread.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I show up in New York, and I look at the skyline, it's like showing up in a mountain range. My gaze goes toward the most impressive-looking climb. It's always gone to the top of the World Trade Center.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always felt like I did things right, always felt like I did things for the community and did everything well in New Orleans.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Logistically, moving from Miami and New Orleans all the way to Seattle isn't the easiest thing. Really, for my dog, she was kind of the biggest hurdle to get here.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can get pretty hectic in New Orleans whenever I go shopping. So I'll fly to Houston, buy my groceries, and then come back - nobody cares there because I'm not J.J. Watt.
- Orange
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Orleans has these older orange lightbulbs, which are really gorgeous. But the main thing that stands out is actually the Superdome.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a couple screenplays that are done, and I'm looking for the right people to help me make them. I do a lot of television writing to develop new ideas for shows.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020