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Jarvis Cocker Quotes

I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: September 19, 1963

Topics

Nervous Always Anyway Perform

This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them.

Music Energy Comedy You Seeing Born

I loved practical jokes. I loved being goofy on the playground, and I loved doing silly cartoons, but I was not this subversive little delinquent. I am an Eagle Scout, after all.

I Am Eagle Loved Doing Silly Scout

Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

Swimming Learn Never Forget You Like

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

Time Beginning Effort Book You Find

It's interesting: I think, as a Latino actor, the biggest challenge is being called 'Latino' because immediately, the world has a perception of what that means.

Challenge World Perception Think

I make fractals. They're like mathematical pictures. My stepdad is actually a rocket scientist, so in his free time, he gave me a fractal program for fun. He showed me how to use it when I was about nine or 10, and I made thousands of fractals.

Time Fun Me Free Pictures Rocket

I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.

Work Think You Want Tell Stories

The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let me down several times. But we're all family.

Family Me Grow Friends Down Grow Up

What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.

Live Memory World Harmony Want Real

I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.

Brian O'Driscoll

Down Will More Hard Chase Ireland

Yes, I am very unhappy, extremely anguished at human rights violations against Kashmiris in India or against Rohingyas in Burma or, for that matter, Christians in Orissa; but obviously, I am going to be more concerned of violations taking place in my own house because I am closer to the people who I live with. I have more passion for them.

Live Passion I Am People Unhappy

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller.

William S. Burroughs

Love Natural Most

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