Jamie Hince Quotes
I love all board games, actually, apart from backgammon. I can never remember the rules.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years.
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I've never been much given to little social cliques.
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I've been lucky enough that in the U.K., I've done shows that have aired once a week. I make a show there that runs seasonally, and we make one episode a week, and that is great - the value of time. You can really think and finesse what you want to do.
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I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States for my inspiration.
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The civil war in Syria is the worst humanitarian tragedy of our generation and one that our government, and the world, is failing to deal with adequately.
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I love all board games, actually, apart from backgammon. I can never remember the rules.
