James Arthur Quotes
One of my fans made a lifelike doll of me. It was incredible - it looked just like me - but an effigy is kinda weird.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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Hope is the raw material of losers.
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I just think political correctness is crap.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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Men treat men differently than they would a woman.
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In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
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My music already has this oldish kind of quality to it, like you don't necessarily know what era it was recorded in, so it all kind of felt surreal and weird. Night after night when I played live, I was really trying to figure it out in real time, and I still don't know what effect I'm going for or what effect I actually achieve. Looking back, I feel like it would be arrogant of me not to appreciate the fact that I've been able to do whatever I want and still have an audience come see me.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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One of my fans made a lifelike doll of me. It was incredible - it looked just like me - but an effigy is kinda weird.
