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.James Mercer Broken Bells
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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.
Idris Elba -
I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
Olivier Theyskens -
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson -
Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
Rachael Harris -
My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
Patrice Leconte -
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.
A. R. Rahman
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
Pablo Casals -
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.
Patrick Modiano -
'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
Gail Carson Levine -
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
Ornette Coleman -
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.
Beck -
I started out doing musicals.
Zooey Deschanel
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I've been very lucky.
Daniel Craig -
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.
Nat Turner -
Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
Tara Strong -
I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.
Harish Rawat -
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie -
Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
W. P. Kinsella
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If I were to be a role model, it would just come out of going the college route, getting training, and trusting that's the most secure path you can take - a path where a degree is involved. You know you went to college, and you have that under your belt.
Camila Mendes -
You don't usually get a compound word where the first part is a slang thing and the second part is a rather ordinary or formal thing - they don't usually mix - but 'gobsmacked' is a perfect exception to that rule.
David Crystal -
Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.
John Dyer -
The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.
P. G. Wodehouse -
For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
Tom Stoppard -
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.
James Mercer Broken Bells