Mark E. Smith Quotes
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.
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When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
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Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
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I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.
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I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
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I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
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I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.
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I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.
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A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.
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Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.
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Think with the big head, man! Think with the big head!
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I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?
