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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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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I was born and raised in the Bronx, and growing up here, you would go down the block, and on one corner you would hear bachata, on another corner some salsa, and of course there was hip-hop and R&B all over the place. So for me, it is very organic to have these combinations.
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I'm not the perfect bride after all.
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It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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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.
