Alex Turner Quotes
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All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.
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I am a big music nerd.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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I had an audition for Mary Jane Watson in 'Spiderman' and ended up playing Betty Brant in that series. I auditioned for Amy Adams' role in 'Catch Me If You Can' and, you know, ended up playing the bank teller. So there were a lot of times early on where I felt like I was always sort of the bridesmaid, never the bride - never quite right.
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You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.
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It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
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South America was not really that open - you had to fit in, and I didn't fit in. I was different - my tastes, my point of view - were a bit weird, and I found in Britain a sense of calm, that I could just be.
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The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
