Alex Turner Quotes
There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
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I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.
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There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.
