Jarvis Cocker Quotes
I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.
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Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.
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I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.
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In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?
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I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
