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 remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.
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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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I use Facebook all the time. I'm not a believer that they're going to do everything on the Internet better than anyone else.
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Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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One golden rule is to accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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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?"
