Shawn Mendes Quotes
'Mercy,' I love conceptually because I feel like you can either think about it as if it were a girl - which it sounds like it could be about a girl - but I like to picture it as 'pleading for mercy for my career' type of thing.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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You can stroke people with words.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.
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I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.
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It is very important to be in harmony with yourself and your profession.
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Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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'Mercy,' I love conceptually because I feel like you can either think about it as if it were a girl - which it sounds like it could be about a girl - but I like to picture it as 'pleading for mercy for my career' type of thing.
