Jake Shears (Jason F. Sellards) Quotes
I think, as people, we're isolating ourselves. We're talking to each other through our phones, arguing... those divisions freak me out.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
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People need to trust what gardai say on the stand, and I can understand that perhaps in a scenario whereby lots of things are happening quickly and people are caught up in the heat of the moment, they may have a recollection that isn't exactly as things happened.
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I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.
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From 1911 to 1928, the country was officially called Republic of China, but in reality, it was actually split between different warlords. It was one of the liveliest periods in Chinese history. It is therefore quite theatrical, and it is good for making films.
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When you do a film, when you do a television show, eventually someone comes along and will say to you, 'Don't say that because, one, you will offend someone, or, two, no one will get that. Someone's going to be confused by that, not get the reference and feel abandoned, and then they will get angry at the entertainment.'
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I think, as people, we're isolating ourselves. We're talking to each other through our phones, arguing... those divisions freak me out.
