Damon Albarn Quotes

I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.

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• I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
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• President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.

  

  Irwin Redlener
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• I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
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• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
  • Body
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• When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.

  

  Haley Bennett
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  • Mistake
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• I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

  

  Wayne Rooney
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• I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • May
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• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Me
  • Part
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• My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Up
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• I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they're doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it's going to work out okay.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Unique
  • Brave

• And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Idea
  • Bliss

• I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Feeling

• To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.

  

  Barry Silbert
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• I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

  

  Dan Simmons
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• Beaujolais is so underrated.

  

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• I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

  

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  • Movie
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• It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• Luxury is not a $4,000 T-shirt - that's just an expensive item, the same as if a can of Coca-Cola cost $5,000.

  

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• I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Writing
  • Hate

• I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

  

  Georg Brandes
  • Time
  • Happy

• Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

  

  Sophocles
  • Death
  • Die
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• I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.

  

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