Jesse Kramer Quotes
Most songs come from things that have happened, experience from everyday life – but sometimes it's just fantasy or something I’ve made up. As if I see a movie playing in my head.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
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I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
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I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.
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You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Junior Blender is a hardcore dancehall head. He's in Supersonic, which is one of the top soundclash sound-systems in Europe.
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Maybe there's a little girl who thinks she can be an Olympic athlete, and she sees all the things I struggled through to get here. Yeah, I didn't walk away with a medal or run away with a medal, but I think there's lessons to be learned when you win and lessons to be learned when you lose.
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Most songs come from things that have happened, experience from everyday life – but sometimes it's just fantasy or something I’ve made up. As if I see a movie playing in my head.
