Bernard Sumner Quotes
As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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I would've been a really big silent movie star.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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I approach song writing three different ways. One way is where I write the initial melody and lyrics first and then take it in to the producer to collaborate. Another way is where the producer sends me his initial musical track ideas and then I write the lyrics and melody over his track. The third way is where we just jam out in the studio and see what we come up with.
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We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.
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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
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Diversity is not just about the fact that the pictures look better. I mean, they always do look better!
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One of the uncertain pleasures of adulthood, for me, has really been about confronting how little I know about the world and how much completely baffles me about the world and human behavior.
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As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
