Jamie Hince Quotes
Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.
Quotes to Explore
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
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I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!
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The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
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Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.
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Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him.
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Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.
