Johnny Marr Quotes
I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There are not very many people who are looking out for you and being in business with you when you're at that stage. And it's not in my nature to think that success as a musician makes you any different from anybody else.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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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 sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
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Values are more important than money.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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Great books are rare.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
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To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is … the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
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One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.
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Even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.
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The DMZ does not divide the last bastion of communism from a liberal democracy; it divides a radical nationalist state from a moderate nationalist one.
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I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There are not very many people who are looking out for you and being in business with you when you're at that stage. And it's not in my nature to think that success as a musician makes you any different from anybody else.
