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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I never liked sleeping in the dark. I have, like, twinkle stars around my bed, so it's not so bad.
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
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What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an all-black, all-male school. Martin Luther King went there. The most famous person in my class was Spike Lee. And I really caught fire. I was so inspired by the people around me that I went from C's and D's to straight A's by the time I left.
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Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'
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Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.
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There's something about a Gucci loafer kicking on a fuzz pedal.
