Norman Quentin Cook (Fatboy Slim) Quotes
I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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It would be a dream to be the face of boxing, to be No. 1.
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I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a movie at the same time.
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Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'
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Whoever is sitting in the White House, especially in their second term, when gas goes up to $3 a gallon, and Katrina, and whenever we're at war, that person sitting in the White House gets the brunt of the accusations.
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As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.
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I wasn't even aware that there are different styles of taxidermy, traditional and rogue. I wound up really liking the rogue stuff the most, just because it is more artistic and people can go anywhere with it. That stuff I really liked. Honestly, I would have liked to buy some of those pieces.
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I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.
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How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.
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Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.
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The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
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I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.
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I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.
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I've never directed, but it must be humbling.
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I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.
