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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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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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.
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You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.
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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.
