Jarvis Cocker Quotes
There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
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I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
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Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
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The expectation with family foundations is that if your name is on the foundation, unless you're dead, it's your money that's being given away. And even if you are dead, it was your money before.
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What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.
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Sisterhood is important to me.
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I think because I did a lot of modelling and appeared in lads mags a lot of women didn't necessarily warm to me. But now I have been through childbirth, post-natal depression and struggled with my weight, women seem to relate to me a lot more.
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There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.
