"Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it."

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Source : "Catching Up With the Shins’ James Mercer". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. March 12, 2012.

James Mercer

#Thinking Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I love the creation of these thingsâ€”I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.”
“If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, even man.”
“Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were flawed, all were equally doomed to suffering, mostly because they couldn't see that they were all alike. Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely. They did enjoy killing one another and frequently came up with ingenious excuses for doing so on a grand scale-religions, economic theories, ethnic pride-but we couldn't condemn them for it, as it was in their mortal natures and they were too stupid to know any better.”

Source : Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.51, Macmillan
“I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.”
“Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.”
“Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.”

Source : "What's eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2004.
“I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time.”
“You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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