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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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.
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I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
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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.
