Jamie Lawson Quotes
The thing with One Direction songs is that you can probably break them all down to an acoustic guitar and vocal.
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You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
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Human reason is by nature architectonic.
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An apple resists being eaten. An apple is not eaten, it is conquered. The crunchiness of a pear is far more appealing. It is giving and fragile. To eat a pear is akin to … kissing.
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Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history.
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The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.
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Freckles are so earnest and Scottish.
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I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.
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What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.
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I spent loads of time in Scotland as a kid. My dad would take us back up to Aberdeen loads, and I have very fond memories of getting chips from his favourite chippy and heading down to the beach to eat Baskin Robbins ice cream.
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I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.
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I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.
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I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
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Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.
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Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must.
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The thing with One Direction songs is that you can probably break them all down to an acoustic guitar and vocal.
