Jamie Parker Quotes
I know I'm only as good as the material I've got to work with. I'm not an alchemist, not when it comes to writing or production.
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I've been with my husband and friends for so long, I've forgotten what is unappealing to new people.
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.
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I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.
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You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.
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I am still making my living reciting my verses for crowds who refuse to buy my books. I must do this, as all American rhymers must, however sick I may be of the sound of my own voice.
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I know I'm only as good as the material I've got to work with. I'm not an alchemist, not when it comes to writing or production.
