Damon Albarn Quotes
No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.
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What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.
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I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less.
