James Mercer Quotes
For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Writers are so important.
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I've been very lucky.
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To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
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Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
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I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
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A woman is more than the sum of her parts. So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White House. I chose not just to talk about the sky, the planet, love or heartache. I wanted to actually be there, to place a mark on that moment.
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There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.
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I never wear very serious suits. I don't have to because I don't go to an office, so it's fine.
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For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.
