Jarvis Cocker Quotes
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.
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If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.
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I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
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When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound.
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Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.
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It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.
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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
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My work is not directly about the social or political.
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Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.
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Digitas is a company that's very rapidly changing - the digital world changes every day. It's important we hire people who are curious about what's going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.
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Nothing divided people more deeply than how they felt about cats.
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Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.
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I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.
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Writing on the road is a passion of mine.
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We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.
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Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.
