There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
ADAM DURITZPeople really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
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I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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Time and time again I can’t please myself.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you’re in a group of people that you work with. It’s not so much, do they make you feel good when you’re around them all the time; it’s how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.
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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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Closeness to other people is really hard, but it’s also a shame because it’s all you want too. But it doesn’t always work.
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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You don’t understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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