Damon Albarn Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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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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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old - and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.
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I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor.
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One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've done for 3,000 performances or a song you're singing for the 3,000th time. My job is to find that spark that keeps it fresh and alive.
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Under President Obama and Secretary Clinton, they're working hard to change the American dream into the European nightmare. They do celebrate more dependence on the government.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
