James Mercer Quotes
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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I got no hate in me.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.
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A scapegoat remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.
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As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'you don't cry because it's over, you're happy because it happened.'
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Te quireo como eres, pero no me digas cómo eres.
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Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.
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Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.
