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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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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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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People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.
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My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.
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Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.
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When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf.
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When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.
