Jamie Brewer Quotes
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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The world needs some help.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.
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I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward.
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It occurs to you that Ulysses is about cliché. It is about inherited, ready-made formulations - most notably Irish Catholicism and anti-Semitism. After all, prejudices are clichés: they are secondhand hatreds . . . Joyce never uses a cliché in innocence.
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Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.
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Coaches are people who are close to you, who you call family.
