Archy Ivan Marshall (King Krule) Quotes
I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over. It's got interpretations of a lot of different genres, too, a lot of dubby-ness and experimental stuff.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
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All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
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I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.
Antony Sher -
Not everybody is talented for doing research. I think many women prefer to look for an easier job after their dissertations because it is very demanding. You have to be mobile. You have to move to different places for your post-doc training. And if you aren't successful, it isn't a very pleasant job, either.
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Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process has become so grueling for me over the past few years that when one of my students uses the word "inspiration" I practically shriek with laughter.
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What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most.
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The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
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I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over. It's got interpretations of a lot of different genres, too, a lot of dubby-ness and experimental stuff.
