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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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 have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.
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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
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I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.
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All my life, everything has been a contest.
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I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
