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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You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.
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Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
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'I didn’t say that,' Szilard said, in a tone that implied that perhaps he had.
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The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
