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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.
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Who would be such a fool as to make advances to his reader, advances which might end in rejection or, worse still, in acceptance?
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Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
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We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.
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All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.
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The global warming is going on. These are not single cases. These are all part of a general way we've been looking at the world. As long as we look at the world that way it's going to go on. Because the idea that the important thing is for some people get rich while the rest of the people work for them is very deeply dug in...
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When you look at men's fashion magazines, you see a lot of well-groomed guys in suits, but very rarely do you see a lot of guys in drop-crotch and hoods with high-tops. It's coming, though, because guys in suits and short hair are beginning to look like they're from another time.
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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.
