Jarvis Cocker Quotes

For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.

Jarvis Cocker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

Matthew Perry

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It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.

Roger Waters

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Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

Micky Dolenz

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I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.

Joss Whedon

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Because President Obama had an overall strategy, military and civilian leaders under his command could make reactive decisions that advanced the president's goals. In the military, we call that commander's intent: When there's a decision to be made and you don't have exact guidance at that moment, you at least know overall what your boss wants.

Jason Kander

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My mum told me that the best thing you could give a woman was attention.

Chris Evans

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I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.

Chris Isaak

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I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

Chris Patten

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My dad doesn't like to admit it, but he's the ultimate stage dad. He likes to see himself as my manager even though he's not. I tell him to calm down at least twice a week. The day of the Tony nominations, I honestly thought he was having a heart attack.

Brandon Uranowitz

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You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

Bruce Springsteen

MusicYouFindTryWhateverOut

I've been acting since I was 7, and I always knew it was what I wanted to go into.

Autumn Reeser

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Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

William Kennedy

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