Jamie Hewlett Quotes
Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.
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Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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I believe in eating what I like and sweating it out in the gym.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
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And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.
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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
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I don't believe in ghosts.
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If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
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The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
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As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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I'm not a great deep political thinker.
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We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.
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That's everyone's motivation: to get to the playoffs and win the World Series.
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Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.
