Chris Lowe Quotes
When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.
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It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.
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Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
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Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
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My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.
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I've got a very interesting background.
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Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.
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When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.
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I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.
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Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that.
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But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.
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Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.
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We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced in dollars. Central banks in other countries hold great quantities of dollars. The dollar was the safe harbor, the port in the storm during the credit crisis.
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'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.
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But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.
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When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed.
