"I think how I've gotten better, hopefully, at taking what I've got and being able to mish-mash something together, and as long as it feels real to me in the moment, then it feels like a success."

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Source : "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

Alia Shawkat

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“It wasn't just Willie and Waylon, there were a lot of influences there. The coolest thing about this, is after getting to listen back to all these mixes is realizing that this record is like a bag of Skittles; every time you pull something out, it's a different flavor. But they're all Skittles. They're all Cody Johnson.”
“The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.”

Source : Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.132, Pendragon Press
“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”
“You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.”

Source : ABC News Interview, abcnews.go.com. November 17, 2009.
“The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.”
“You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.”
“A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.”
“There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.”

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