Martin Gore Quotes
I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.
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I don't want to dog the NFL.
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Everybody has problems.
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By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
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I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
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Music means itself.
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No one can buy his share of 'clean air' in the market; one has to use communal mechanisms in order to deal with pollution.
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There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.
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When I am on stage, I give everything. Maybe because of that, I won't last long, but I don't care.
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I am definitely quick to adapt. I am not scared to come into a new environment.
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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.
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Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
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Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.
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I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
