"In a certain way, we felt almost like spies in the major label world. We were coming from some other world, and we somehow got our foot in the door and crept in and were prowling around, checking things out and taking back reports from the front."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Lee Ranaldo

#Spy Quotes #World Quotes

“Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.”

Source : "Gene Hackman, Hollywood's Every Angry Man" by David Edelstein, www.nytimes.com. December 16, 2001.
“You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children you back off of a little bit and let them be. It's the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be and you let them go. Some actors like to be nudged just a little bit. Some actors don't mind line readings.”
“To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.”
“The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.”
“My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots.”
“People really do want simpler, cleaner food, but this isn't about marketing, it's about delivering.”
“We know that we are close to making history.”
“Hip hop is just a reflection of what's going on, or where the art is....Technology definitely gives artists a new mind, new voice and creativity. Right now people need to be more places at once....so whatever can get people to the next level to be efficient is how technology is going to be used......The danger is if people are relying too much on the machines, that new mind and new voice always has to come from within.”

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