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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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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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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If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
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You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.
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The only way you're going to save things in life is through love, and that's what we're trying to do .... make people fall in love with Florida.
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If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.
