Damon Albarn Quotes
I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history.
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And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have.
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Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
