Jarvis Cocker Quotes
I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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I love what I do.
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I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
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The summer before I started college, my parents walked everywhere instead of taking the bus. Once a week, they would hand over $10 to the university housing office, a deposit so I could move into the dorms in the fall.
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“I never try to please others when I make music; There is only one person who has to like what comes out of those speakers and that person is myself!”
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I'm not going to throw chairs; I'm not going to cuss. I'm not going to do that kind of stuff, because you don't have to do that. You don't have to act like that, and you don't have to live like that in order to be successful.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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...the key factor in industry is creativity. I said there are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.
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I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.
