Alex Turner Quotes
I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come from - I know the secret.
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A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.
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I just think political correctness is crap.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.
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Like a lot of expatriate Scots, when you want to be called Scottish, it's useful. I see myself as being without nationality, as a European: my region is Scotland; my nationality is European - isn't that a very Alex Salmond thing to say?
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I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come from - I know the secret.
