Jamie Lawson Quotes
Skype is a wonderful invention. It might be my favorite thing because I get to see my family and the ones that you love.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?'
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Communication is always 'propaganda.' The emitter always wants 'to get something across.'
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.
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Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up.
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Skype is a wonderful invention. It might be my favorite thing because I get to see my family and the ones that you love.
