Damon Albarn Quotes
If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.
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New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
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Is the human race a universal constructor?
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I will always wear what I want and have some fun doing it. I'm not afraid to take risks with my appearance. I'm not so vain.
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It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
