Damon Albarn Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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You never get every job you want.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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I'd never really considered film. If I'd thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.
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What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.
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Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.
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I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.
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I get inspired with passion, I think. I get inspired by people who are just passionate, and it doesn't matter what they do or what they're passionate about.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
