Johnny Marr Quotes
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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I have a very small public.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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There are jobs that come along in your life, if you're lucky enough, that elevate you in a considerable way. And 'Homeland' was definitely one of those jobs.
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'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.
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Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.
