Marcus Mumford Quotes
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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It all started when I was 4. I was watching a lot of 'The Little Mermaid,' and I loved that movie. I was going around the house singing - I wanted to be on Disney and everything; I wanted to be a princess.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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I was born with an evil face.
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If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.
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Be a creator, not just sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone to call you into the game or call our number.
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Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.
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If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.
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The reason I think we hold films like 'The Sixth Sense' and 'Citizen Kane' in such high regard is those are movies that were amplified by their twists but were already bringing the goods.
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My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers.
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Every band I've come across has read more than I have.
