John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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A lot of people don't understand how hard the girls on 'Total Divas' work. They're on the road, the same as the rest of us, and then when they get home, they've got to be filming this whole time.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.
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I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.
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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
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I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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To say more, is to say less.
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Golf is my boyfriend right now.
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Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.
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Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly.
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When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.
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I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to do it in an exciting way so that I could reach more readers. Zombies seemed like a good way to do that.
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I do retweet some of the things that people say about the things I've done, but I don't necessarily want to use it to promote myself because I find that it gets kind of boring. There should just be a whole different site for that. Because it's just kind of boring and gross to use it just self-promotion.
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'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.
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I've always despised the hippies.
