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.
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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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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?
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The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.
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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.
