James Mercer Quotes

I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't really end up buying a lot of modern soundtracks. Another soundtrack I love is from a French movie called 'Betty Blue.' it has some really melancholy piano work.

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• If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.

  

  Ed Westwick
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• When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.

  

  Maceo Parker
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• I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
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• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

  W. H. Davies
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• Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
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• Quality is everyone's responsibility.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

  

  Nas
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• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
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• Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

  

  Jackee Harry
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• We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.

  

  Dan Stevens
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• I have to be where the best work can be done.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
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• Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
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• I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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• There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
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• Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

  

  Tea Leoni
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• When I signed up for Google Plus, it recommended 500 people for me to invite. You know, and once I invited those 500 people I got another 500 people. So it has a huge install base that it can start from.

  

  Jennifer 8. Lee
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• I have walked into several pubs, and guys in there have said to me, 'My God, you are the girl off the dancing horse.' They have got no idea about dressage, and they said, 'I can't work out whether you make the horse do that or the horse does it itself - we just couldn't tell - but it brought tears to our eyes.'

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
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• I love the structural part of the writing process.

  

  Kate Morton
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• As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.

  

  David Stras

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't really end up buying a lot of modern soundtracks. Another soundtrack I love is from a French movie called 'Betty Blue.' it has some really melancholy piano work.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
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