Alex Kapranos Quotes
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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The challenge in a startup is you hit a lot of turbulence, and you want people who understand that it's just turbulence and not a crisis.
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I'm very sensitive to smells.
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This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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I trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I'll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot.
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You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
