James Mercer Quotes
I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
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It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be!
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Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
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Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president.
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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
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I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.
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I spent a lot of time writing about tax and pensions and mortgages.
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Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
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Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.
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I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.
