Me Quotes
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
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I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.
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The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
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He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.
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With 'Eagle of the Ninth,' every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, 'Do this!' And I say, 'How was it?' and he says, 'Good.' It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance.
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There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.
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Lewis Black taught me stand-up.
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For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.
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Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
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The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.
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'The Shining' scares me so much.
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People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.
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'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
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It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.
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Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'
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I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.
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When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.
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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
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I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
