Norman Quentin Cook (Fatboy Slim) Quotes
I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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I fight because I like challenges.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
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My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
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Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.
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I do go to the gym five days a week.
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Our first single wasn't put out by any big-name record company. We had been playing in clubs for a while and we wanted to put out an EP. None of the record companies would have us. They told us that our type of rock and roll wasn't happening. We decided to show 'em they were wrong, so we recorded the stuff on our own and put it out on our own private label, Bludgeon Riffola Records. When it started to sell a lot of copies, the record companies 'suddenly' discovered us. It was strange, but we felt vindicated.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.
