Mark E. Smith Quotes
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
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I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.
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Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.
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I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.
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You can't be afraid to be honest and to be yourself. We all have imperfections and fall short at some point. Showing your human side creates a sensitivity, openness and trust. That's the beginning of the demise in a relationship - not being honest and not being you.
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The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
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If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.
