Johnny Marr Quotes
I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please them.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.
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The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.
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Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.
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It's been great from the start, but I'm realizing that the music has just gotten tighter the more we play together
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
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I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please them.
