Alex Turner Quotes
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski -
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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Urbanspoon is a nice, little application and it's perfect, of course, for CitySearch because of the reviews it contains and the ability for CitySearch to use that content.
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
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Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.
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It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.
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When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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It has taken a long time to get through to corporate use.
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My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
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The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... But we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.
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If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.
