Jack Garratt Quotes
My mission is to just keep creating music. If it helps people in some way, then I'm doing the right thing.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.
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For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll.
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My mission is to just keep creating music. If it helps people in some way, then I'm doing the right thing.
