- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone Quotes
On the someones who shape a moment.
This page includes praise for a steady presence who doesn't panic under pressure, and a note on a fictional character built to feel relatable even in impossible circumstances. For similar reflections, see Know.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never take a fight with someone to one-up someone else. You know, you do things because you want to do them.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.
- Defense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only someone with epaulets can be defense minister. We're in a democratic country.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone has to be the villain. I'm the most villainized player right now. People don't like me.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it's very nice.
- Chair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I interview someone for a job, I always ask them whether they want to sit in Bernanke's chair. The only wrong answer is, 'Who's Bernanke?'.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020