Marc Almond Quotes
As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me from the beginning, you know, as a loser in a 1972 Dodge Dart with the bumper literally duct-taped to the body.
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I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.
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In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.
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In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
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As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.
