Alex Turner Quotes
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
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I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
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It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on your mind's screen?
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So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked best for the band. So, I definitely changed my stuff up and I think we're playing really tight now.
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I think the idea of opening up for a massive band is always better than actually doing it, and having your name on the ticket means more than the actual set.
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The avocado is native to the Mexican state of Puebla, which helps explain why it's so popular in Mexican cooking.
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A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one.
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Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.
