John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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People take things so seriously.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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I think what I've learned to focus on is my music, and that's why I made my record independently.
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We went from losses to goods seized by creditors, while continuing to organize surrealist or abstract exhibitions…
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People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.
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I think that the line between television and features started to blur a couple years ago. The standards started to become the same, which is that the idea had to be very loud. The show didn't have to be loud; the idea had to be loud. It had to cut through the clutter.
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Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.
