Jamie Cullum Quotes
I'm no longer a shoeaholic, but I used to be. I used to spend all my time on tour either buying records or shoes.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.
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People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.
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We must combat ill-advised conservative-led state legislation by encouraging every eligible person you know to vote.
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To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
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Do but stand still in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him. But there is so often a forsaking the ways of the Lord in the hour of trial, and thus the food of faith, the means whereby our faith may be increased, is lost.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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I'm no longer a shoeaholic, but I used to be. I used to spend all my time on tour either buying records or shoes.
