Vance Joy (James Gabriel Keogh) Quotes
I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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I just want to do my job.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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Love at first sight is different when you're 32 than when you're 22. In your early 20s, you fall in love after three weeks.
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The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
