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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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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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 didn't start my label out of a business perspective. I did it because I wanted to create a platform where new musicians can have the chance to get into a studio, work with each other, and get their music noticed by a large audience.
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Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.
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On oilrigs men who only work an 8-hour day are contemptuously called nine-to-fivers. In stark contrast, women are more likely not to take risks, even when the risks are minimal. What's the message to our sons? Our praise of our sons when they risk physical danger teaches them that a willingness to be physically abused creates love. Abuse-as-love? Yes.
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You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.
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A final argument for broad freedom of expression is its effect on the character of individuals in a society. Citizens in a free society must have courage — the courage to hear not only unwelcome political speech but novel and shocking ideas in science and the arts.
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I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.
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There's something about a Gucci loafer kicking on a fuzz pedal.
