Erol Alkan Quotes
There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
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Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.
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I have been in auditions where - because - you're always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
Nastassja Kinski -
When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.
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If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
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I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.
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I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now.
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There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.
