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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School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.
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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)
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I've trained all my life. I've always been one who enjoys training so it's not something that I think I can just stop doing. It might not be as regular but I want to keep training.
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I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.
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Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.
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Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.
