Tom Odell Quotes
I think music moves me more than other people. I can hear a song and it can bring me to tears. It doesn't happen the whole time, but I find songwriting - songs - very, very moving. I always have and I don't think it's fading.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.
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Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which the U.S. already exports. Many studies - from a range of institutions and government agencies, including the Congressional Budget Office and the Energy Information Administration - have shown that lifting the export ban could actually lower gas prices.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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I can afford to say what I wish.
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CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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I would love to interview Dave Grohl. I just think he's an amazing musician, and I grew up listening to Nirvana, so I have so many questions about that.
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I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.
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Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
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Even before I joined journalism, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. Tintin was an early inspiration.
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That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
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When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.
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To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.
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I think every film is made better by having smart music supervision that's really in tune with the spirit of the visual content.
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It's easier to shape a child than to repair an adult.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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For the most part, I've stayed as far away as possible from high school movies. I just don't find them to be that relatable to everybody? They become like this: 'Look at that period of time. Isn't that interesting?'
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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I think music moves me more than other people. I can hear a song and it can bring me to tears. It doesn't happen the whole time, but I find songwriting - songs - very, very moving. I always have and I don't think it's fading.
