Marc Almond Quotes
I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
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The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable - is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you're a huge bestseller.
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I hate to judge everybody across the board.
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Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
