Jack White Quotes

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

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• Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.

  

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• I learn something in the interviews from time to time.

  

  Samantha Bee
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• Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

  

  Ralph Boston
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• When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

  

  Warren Littlefield
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• I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.

  

  Kate Williams
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• I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.

  

  E. L. James
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• 'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
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• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
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• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  

  Fefe Dobson
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• My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.

  

  Samuel Barnett
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• I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

  

  I. King Jordan
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• In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

  

  Victor LaValle
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• I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
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• In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

  

  Dierks Bentley
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• I still feel normal. Like, I don't feel like I'm a superstar.

  

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• On 'Master of None,' the majority of the episodes were just one story, and that was by design because we really wanted to focus in on the character of Dev and get the audience in his head.

  

  Alan Yang
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• I hope to create characters that people want to watch - and they either want to be or are, or it's something that they recognize.

  

  Florence Pugh
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• I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

  

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