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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By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
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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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That’s the words: 'So I’m back to the velvet underground'-which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff-'back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was.'
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There are times I'd like to be incognito, be someplace where I might not stand out.
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I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.
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When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.
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At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come on, Stephen - you're not singing. Have a go!' 'Believe me, Paul, you don't want me to,' I said. Besides, I was having a much better time listening to him. 'No. Go on!' So I joined in the chorus. 'You're right,' Paul McCartney conceded. 'You can't sing.
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So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.
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Confidence is instrumental to those climbing out of poverty.
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I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
