Jack Garratt Quotes
I wanted to be a teacher because that is all I knew. It was a great course on primary school education, in which I could specialise in music, but I ended up dropping out after I was honest with myself about what I really wanted to do with my life.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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In your 40s, you kind of know how things are likely to go, and you're better at saying, 'You know what? That just doesn't suit me...' I remember thinking in my 30s, 'I should go to Burning Man. I could be a Burning Man person.' And in my 40s, I'm like, 'You know what? I'm never going to go to Burning Man.'
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Once your career is over, then you don't have to live up to anything.
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One of the great things about working for Netflix is that they haven't placed any restrictions on content or artistically.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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The first slave came to Florida in 1526. The first one we know by name, Esteban, which means Stephen, came a couple of years later. So, we start with the stories of Juan Garrido and Esteban to show that African-American people have been here a century longer than anyone thought, and that the diversity we see in the African-American community today has existed since the beginning.
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I wanted to be a teacher because that is all I knew. It was a great course on primary school education, in which I could specialise in music, but I ended up dropping out after I was honest with myself about what I really wanted to do with my life.
