Gerald Scarfe Quotes
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
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My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
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What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
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I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.
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I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.
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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.
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Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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I've discovered, I guess, that it's fun to work.
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There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.
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'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.
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Your love to me was like an unread book.
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I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.
