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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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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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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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?
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When we started doing YouTube, the goal was, hey, let's make stuff that we want to see, that entertains us.
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I felt like there were so many talented people who should be getting what I have.
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Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.
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Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
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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.
