Alex Turner Quotes
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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions.
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My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.
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People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.
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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
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If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.
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It's something nice to be number one, of course, but there are much more expectations.
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Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.
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I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.
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I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it.
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The TV schedule is fantastic. It allows you to have a life. Theater actors are so disciplined - especially if you're doing musicals, you have to be in shape physically, mentally, and have to be on your game all the time. That's exhausting. On TV, especially a sitcom, you have a lot of free time to play.
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I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.
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I think having a dog makes you more compassionate.
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The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
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I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.
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My kids, they're like nine or ten years old right now so you give 'em responsibilities just to keep them up on things. It ain't just all about getting on the skateboard or putting your Heelys on, and swimming in the pool all the time. You gotta do stuff like wash dishes, take the trash out, feed the dog.
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On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.
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I try to think of school - this is going to sound awful - as something I do in my free time.
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If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends.
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High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.
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I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.
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From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.
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I'm like the Ben Affleck of crowd surfing.
