Mike Posner Quotes
I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
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I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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What seems like comfort and security one day can all be taken away the very next.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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No woman should be told she can't make her own decisions about her body. If women's reproductive rights come under attack, I will be standing up for women.
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You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I'm a realist with the philosophy that sometimes you've got to take bites out of the apple instead of the whole apple.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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The Broadway run of 'Memphis' has been like going to the moon. It was so great to actually open at the Shubert Theatre and then amazing to be nominated for eight Tonys and attend all the luncheons and events.
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Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.
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I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.
