Jarvis Cocker Quotes
When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.
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By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.
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Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.
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I love the idea of trying to do the work of old-fashioned novelists of plotting and of really making you curious about what's going to happen next and all that, but also trying to load it up with your weird thoughts and opinions.
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If you don't want to part with belongings but still want to monetize them, then you can rent them out.
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There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.
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When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.
