Damon Albarn Quotes
A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for a cartoon. It was something different. It was a much more emotional affair. I wasn't necessarily thinking in the third-person then.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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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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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
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When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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The future is never written...only penciled in.
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There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'
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I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.
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Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.
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Everything that goes outside the rules of Italian cinema has always been cursed.
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The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
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My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning.
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Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.
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What I mean by love ... is this. A sympathetic liking--excited by fancy, directed by judgment--and to which is joined also a most sincere desire of the good and happiness of its object.
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Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
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Think of yourself as a role model for others-showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!
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A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for a cartoon. It was something different. It was a much more emotional affair. I wasn't necessarily thinking in the third-person then.
