Alex Turner Quotes

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Alex Turner

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• I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Help
  • Think
  • Just

• I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Car
  • Chicago

• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Like
  • Humor

• I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Know
  • Boundaries

• I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Drama

• Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Help
  • Think
  • Key

• When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Father
  • Thank God

• I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Players
  • Rather
  • Tricky

• The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Believe
  • History

• I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Children
  • Hate
  • Birthday

• I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.

  

  Kate Moss
  • God
  • Jam
  • Oh

• It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Life
  • Live
  • Journey

• The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Bad
  • Person
  • Often

• The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

  

  Bruce Lee

• Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Mis verdades duran poco en mí: menos que las ajenas.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• My real last name is Flores, and Milian is actually my mom's maiden name. So it's not made up, which is cool; it runs in the family. And it actually worked out better for my career to have the last name Milian, because Flores kept me in a little box, and no one really associated me with the last name Flores.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Up
  • Real
  • Family

• Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you’re trying to say on stage... Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.

  

  Bruce Springsteen
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Success

• This business is so unstable, and you never really know where you're going to be.

  

  Katie Holmes
  • Business

• My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Best
  • Acting
  • Damn

• Certainly, a gallery has to sell your work, so they'll be very frightened of you doing anything too different, and that can be difficult, but they can also recognize the need to change. Usually, if you just go and do it, and other people like it, it will still get recognized.

  

  Catherine Yass
  • Different
  • Difficult

• There's something about a Gucci loafer kicking on a fuzz pedal.

  

  Alex Turner