Alex Turner Quotes
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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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.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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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.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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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.'
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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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.
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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.
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I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.
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I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.
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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.
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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
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The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
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Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies.
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Mis verdades duran poco en mí: menos que las ajenas.
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
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If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
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I want to continually find ways to bring my ideas off the stage and into the real world, into the streets. I think I can make the world a better place, if only for a little while.
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Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
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London is very fashion-forward. Everyone's very stylish, and the designers are great. It's very my style, grungy and feminine - a bit of everything.
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Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.
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There's something about a Gucci loafer kicking on a fuzz pedal.
