James Mercer Quotes
I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Chinese people age overnight.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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You know, you can only lead them from behind.
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I like having black hair. When I was really young, I wanted to be Asian - Asian hair is beautiful. I also wanted to look like the girl in George Michael's 'Father Figure' video.
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Progress is the ultimate motivation.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important. Take film: you can have quite extreme emotional experiences watching a movie, but they stop as soon as you walk out of the cinema. You can see people being hurt, but even though you feel those things strongly, you know they’re not real.
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I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.
