Martin Gore Quotes
It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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I lost my confidence.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
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Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.
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I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
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I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
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I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.
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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
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We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.
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Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.
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It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.
