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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I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
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People always think I'm Amy Poehler, which never bothers me. I mean, Amy Poehler is great.
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It's pretty hard to stand in the queue auditioning to play a gynaecologist on 'Holby City' when you've just played Mandela. You think, 'Actually, I want to challenge myself.'
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When you're auditioning for commercials, they're looking for a Latin guy in his 20s, and you'll show up, and it's a bunch of people who look just like you, and it's a little weird. More often than not, they're way better-looking. They're taller. They have way more abs than you do.
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Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to abandon our favorite beliefs on these issues. If you've ever let yourself feel lovable and lovely, only to be deeply hurt, you may see accepting your own body as a setup for severe emotional wounding.
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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.
