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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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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Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.
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I'm very happy. I was little scared because it's such a big bite.
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I don't particularly like equities, but I think equities are a better space to be in than bonds.
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The cast of 'Zoey 101' are like a family to me.
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I feel like that's what being creative is: It's you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it.
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People are smart, good and surprise me with the way they use our site.
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It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.
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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?"
