Jarvis Cocker Quotes
You know when you're thinking about what you want to be when you grow up, or how you want your life to pan out. I couldn't imagine anything better than living in a hotel so you'd never have to worry about washing up, making the bed, anything like that, and having a servant to come in and play all your favourite TV programmes.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
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There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on every occasion. It's just like somebody writing a screenplay or something like that.
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I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
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I like dressing sexy, and I like having a good time.
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Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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You know when you're thinking about what you want to be when you grow up, or how you want your life to pan out. I couldn't imagine anything better than living in a hotel so you'd never have to worry about washing up, making the bed, anything like that, and having a servant to come in and play all your favourite TV programmes.
