Dan Smith Quotes
When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.
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It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.
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My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
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For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.
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As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.
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That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
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Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
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People don't know much about what's going on on the ground in Iraq: what you see in the media is heavily censored.
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The UK is always ahead of their time in music, and America always follows them five years later.
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They sat behind a screen, and grunted and wheezed over sheets of brown paper that looked as if ink-dipped and intoxicated spiders had danced across them.
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I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark.
