Mark Mothersbaugh Quotes
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
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I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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I haven't had many relationships.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.
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I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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If we push for the children to know tennis, they have the chance to like it.
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When I was growing up, my mum was doing illegal smuggling with China. Sometimes she would see a fortune teller for advice. One time I went with her: 'In your future, you'll be living in foreign country and eating the foreign country rice,' she said.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
