Alex Turner Quotes
The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it would be nice to live there - the same with London.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can end up badly.
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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.
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The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it would be nice to live there - the same with London.
