Alex Turner Quotes
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I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
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My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
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I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.
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I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.
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The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.
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Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks.
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If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.
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Out of profound gratitude for my adopted country, I can only say that I would like in this land to live and die, and while I live to help other people as much as possible, believing that only in service to other people can I possibly express my gratitude for all that America has done for me.
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I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
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Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die.
