Martin Gore Quotes
Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
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I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.
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I always considered myself a songwriter, but I didn't move to New York with plans of doing that; it just sort of happened. Everyone thinks that I moved to New York strictly to play music, but I totally just happened to fall into playing with Woods, and it all got started from there. I just went to New York to hang out.
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We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.
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Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.
