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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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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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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The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.
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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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I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.
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My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre.
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I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
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I think I just stick to eating a well-rounded diet. I don't cut out anything; if I crave something, I eat it. But I definitely try to stick to a balanced diet always.
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When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.
