Damon Albarn Quotes
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.
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It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
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I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?
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I've always wanted to create shoes that were positive and happy.
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Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family's footsteps and going into professional wrestling.
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It's our country. I have a lot of pride in it and the flag and what that's about and all the people who fought for it.
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I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.
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Often, everybody is comfortable with their role in life, and they forget about the people who are uncomfortable.
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If instead of doing the real work of love you start doing organized propaganda work for me, it is absurd. I need no propaganda or publicity. I do not want propaganda and publicity, but I do want love and honesty. If you cannot live the life of love and honesty, you should stop working for me. I am quite capable of doing my Universal Work alone.
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The things that make me happy most are my family and working.
