Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.) Quotes
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I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.
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I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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I haven't thought too much about the word 'foodie,' but I definitely lie closer to the 'I just need to eat a thing to fuel myself' end of the spectrum. It's not quite a hobby. I don't feel a need to try all the newest restaurants.
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(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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Job creators should be able to focus on their work - not on Washington's busy-work.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
