Bradford Cox Quotes
I'm real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I've done is boring indie rock. I didn't intend it to be that way, but somehow milk gets added to everything.
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I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.
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My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?
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Being a teenager, it's so hard to find foundation that's good for your skin for everyday wear.
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But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.
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Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
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Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.
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Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
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I like shopping, and I like to drive.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.
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I had to go to the store, I had decided, to bring back some apples - and I went past the store that sold apples and I kept driving, and driving. I was going south, and west, because if I went north or east I would run out of world too soon.
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I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.
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You never find virtuosity for its own sake.
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Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.
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I know how big business works. I don't trust it.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet. (p. 66)
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Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.
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I'm real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I've done is boring indie rock. I didn't intend it to be that way, but somehow milk gets added to everything.
