Johnny Marr Quotes

I really had a great time working with Modest Mouse, just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

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• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.

  

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• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

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• Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.

  

  Edith Head
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• To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.

  

  I. M. Pei
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• Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.

  

  Patrick Ewing
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• At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

  

  Cab Calloway
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• We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
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• We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
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• I admired anyone who could unsettle people.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.

  

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• Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.

  

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• At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.

  

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• I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'

  

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• My original intention was to use it just for improvised, soundscape-y stuff, but I ended up falling in love with it. So I put it on a lot of the songs. It's not anything that I'm proficient on, but in the studio, if I spend a day working it, I can shimmy my way around.

  

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  • Songs
  • Intention
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• President Bush got an early Christmas gift. This week, President Bush was chosen as 'Person of the Year' by Time magazine. Not only that, Martha Stewart was chosen as person of the year by Doing Time magazine.

  

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• I really had a great time working with Modest Mouse, just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

  

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