Mark Bradford Quotes
I just follow the things I'm interested in. That's always guided me. If I'm interested in something, that's where I go.
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My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.
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I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.
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It comes down to personal style, and that's what's sexy and attractive in a man.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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I'm a work in progress.
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Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
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I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.
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Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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I'm not going to be around for a long time, so I like to be able to look at myself in the mirror and say I talked about stuff when I'm not supposed to and didn't have to. I could be in the closet, but I feel insulted at the idea that I should be.
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Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.
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Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing.
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People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.
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You have to understand that your music isn't for everybody; your job isn't to please everybody.
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I just follow the things I'm interested in. That's always guided me. If I'm interested in something, that's where I go.
