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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I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.
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Writing songs is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen"... That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want.
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In middle school, I was really into the 'Redwall' series, about anthropomorphic rodents in medieval times. I had a bowl cut, too, if you need the full imagery.
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I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.
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That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment.
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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.
