Quote by Jarvis Cocker
As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it wo

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldnt actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you dont want it. – Jarvis Cocker

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You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock – that youve still got it. – Jarvis Cocker

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Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but its some kind of quality isnt it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth. – Jarvis Cocker

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I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where Im from. I wouldnt move back there, but its funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way. – Jarvis Cocker

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Im hardly famous. I wouldnt want to trade places with anyone else. – Nikki Cox

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There were so much affairs of me created by the media… of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star. – Gabriela Sabatini

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I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when Im not famous any more. – Eva Herzigova

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It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality. – Griffin Dunne

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