Jamie Cullum Quotes
I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.
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I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
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When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
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You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
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If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
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I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.
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I have crazy eyebrows, so it's crucial to tame them. Just like your hair, they set off your features.
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Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
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All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.
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Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
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I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.
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All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.
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Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.
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You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.
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'The Road' reminds me of Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath.'
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It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the whole Welsh people would do anything to entertain, and would even neglect their business to do so. But as a stranger in Wales, it is difficult to break through their suspicion and mistrust.
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I'm always excited to try something I haven't done.
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The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.
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I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.
