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To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#before #child #first #guess #i

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#having #only #right #say #them

You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#avoid #discuss #get #i #into

Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character. ↗

— Joel Coen

#character #different #different thing #kinds #like

The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#back #come #computer #into #live

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age. ↗

— Joel Coen

#burden #driving #education #father #jew

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#beings #each #how #human #human beings

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about! ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#also #because #case #country #history

We create monsters and then we can't control them. ↗

— Joel Coen

#create #monsters #them #then

Today, writers want to impress other writers. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#other #today #want #writers