Jack Garratt Quotes
The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did know was there but had avoided.
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There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Time was God's first creation.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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I buy way too many books.
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In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.
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I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.
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My music comes from heartbreak - from feeling what it's like to lose everything and not being able to express it through words because it doesn't make sense.
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I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
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Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.
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The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did know was there but had avoided.
