Alexis Korner Quotes
In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
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Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
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I think Kareena Kapoor is gorgeous. She is effortless. I have never seen her go overboard with her make-up or the way she dresses. Even off-screen or when travelling, she looks gorgeous.
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For me... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can't just go into Supercuts.
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You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.
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Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.
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Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.
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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
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there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.
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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
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Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.
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I've got to hear the rhythm of the sentences; I want the music of the prose. I want to see ordinary things transformed not by the circumstances in which I see them but by the language with which they're described. That's what I love when I read.
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In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.
