Alexander David Turner Quotes

I've come to recognize songwriting as something that I do, and I want to be good at that. At that craft, if you like. I want to practice it.

Alexander David Turner Arctic Monkeys

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• Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.

  

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• Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

  

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• I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.

  

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• Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.

  

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• When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first film, I was a kid of 11 years old, and I basically was playing a very young Ewok.

  

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• If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge unity.

  

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• A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

  

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• If you want to know if your food contains gluten, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, trans-fats or MSG, you simply read the ingredients listed on the label.

  

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• For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.

  

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• Like Christians, Soccerians argue that you should not judge the essence of their faith by the loopy activities of its followers. But the Beautiful Game is in fact quite the opposite. It is badly designed and riddled with flaws.

  

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• Me and Ashley feel like we're totally different.

  

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• When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.

  

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• Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.

  

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• The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.

  

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• Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making.

  

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• I thought this was pretty timely and it was pretty interesting to film in Snowden.

  

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• I've come to recognize songwriting as something that I do, and I want to be good at that. At that craft, if you like. I want to practice it.

  

  Alexander David Turner Arctic Monkeys
  • Songwriting