Jarvis Cocker Quotes
There are some quite funny things about getting famous and stuff, but I think there comes a point where you have to think to yourself, "Well, am I doing this because I want to go to a party and meet Britney Spears? Or am I doing it because I want to create something that excites me?"
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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There's no wrong way to experience a film.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.
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I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.
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My private life is quiet.
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And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?
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When we speak of the commerce with our American colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
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Those forest reserves are not merely for the convenience and benefit of the people near them, but they are the property of the nation and for its greatest good. It is unreasonable to suppose that they should be destroyed or imperiled for any local convenience, as a mere present to men engaged in one local industry.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.
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There are some quite funny things about getting famous and stuff, but I think there comes a point where you have to think to yourself, "Well, am I doing this because I want to go to a party and meet Britney Spears? Or am I doing it because I want to create something that excites me?"
