Bradford Cox Quotes
All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.
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I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.
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If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
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There are some men who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever.
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I loved all sports, and New York's a pretty good sports town, and the Giants - I don't know why we chose the Giants over the Jets, but we chose the Giants.
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MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress.
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I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
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There's one right place to put the camera. I'm a big believer in that. You'd think you could put it anywhere. Nope.
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As a second unit director, you're entrusted to shoot the action sequences. On every movie, it's slightly different.
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Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.
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I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God.
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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
