Damon Albarn Quotes
In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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They hate whom they fear.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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Even the very youngest children already are perfectly able to discriminate between the imaginary and the real, whether in books or movies or in their own pretend play. Children with the most elaborate and beloved imaginary friends will gently remind overenthusiastic adults that these companions are, after all, just pretend.
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We all know that somebody did it, but how did they find the answer?
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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We suffered a setback and there were too many trades until Dave Taylor came along and Charlie Simmer.
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I'm sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've put out 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
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In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
