Jules Shear Quotes
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
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I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being little and thinking I might want to be a singer. But not a famous singer - just, like, a singer.
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My music relies solely on the feeling. Just the feeling.
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A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.
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The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
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When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
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During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
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I never had a long-term plan.
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The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.
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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
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...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.
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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.
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My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
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Good drama should sandpaper the mind.
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Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
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It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do-write songs and sing them to people. Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.
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I made this record without a record label.
