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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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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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.
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I think people are a little surprised sometimes at the level on which I actually talk. I don't talk like Caine. And every once in a while, somebody is surprised because I smoke and I drink. But I don't feel that is a contradiction.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.
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I'm very good at plot.
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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.
