Alex Turner Quotes

I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

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• My mother taught me to read.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Read

• My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Film
  • Weird
  • First

• The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • True
  • Lost

• New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Love
  • City
  • Place

• I have a lot of love for nature, trees, animals and greenery, and I feel that if I did not exist, there'd be no greenery on the face of the earth.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Earth

• You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • You
  • Famous

• I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Find
  • Big
  • Hilarious

• They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Snow
  • Nasty
  • Horses

• I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

  

  Larry David
  • Happy
  • Evidence

• Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • May
  • Stop
  • Democracy

• I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Work
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• I think we're glazing eyes all across America.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • America
  • Think
  • Eyes

• Fans who drive insane amount of hours to come to a show still amazes me. I mean, it can get up to 10 hours! That's loyalty.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Up
  • Me
  • Fans

• When called by a panther,Don't anther.

  

  Ogden Nash

• The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Time
  • History
  • Universe

• A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life. There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness.

  

  Albert Pike
  • Life
  • Lies

• ...life is lonely, life is empty. Love isn't everything. A dear true friend is more than love-the serge outlasts the silk.

  

  Clifford Odets
  • Life
  • True
  • Friend

• When I have children, it will be my choice, and I won't feel under any pressure.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Children

• My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if I will be able to.

  

  Suga BTS
  • Music

• In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Character
  • Bad

• Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Quality
  • Used
  • Decade

• The issue Fodor writes about is central to the psychology of perception, cognition, and action. It is the central issue for anyone who would seriously study the neurobiology of behavior: Is the mind organized horizontally or vertically or both, and what are the consequences to psychology of proceeding on one assumption or the other? This has been little analyzed and written about. Jerry Fodor has repaired that omission and had done it brilliantly.

  

  Alvin Liberman
  • Psychology
  • Behavior
  • Issue

• I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

  

  Alex Turner