Gary Jarman Quotes
When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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I always drive like a madman.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.
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You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.
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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
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If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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I only listen to myself, I hate to say. I don't got time to listen to nobody else. There's a lot of guys out there, but I only listen to myself.
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There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.
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I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.
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Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
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When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.
