Mark Knopfler I actually spend as much time listening to new music as to old. Probably more. I just try to get something out of it all. – Mark Knopfler Listening Quotes Music Quotes Spend Quotes Time Quotes I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I’d also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn’t have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints. I just try to stay fit. That’s important – just to try to stay physically fit so you can go out there and play. You do need to be in reasonable shape.
Jonas Mekas To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don’t just say, ‘Oh, I bought some literature.’ No, you say, ‘I bought a novel’ by so-and-so, or a book of essays by so-and-so. – Jonas Mekas
Michael Gove Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life. – Michael Gove
Matthew Macfadyen The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you’re not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you’ll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn’t work like that. So much is luck. It’s much better to let yourself off, to think, ‘There’s nothing I can do.’ – Matthew Macfadyen
Rick Santelli This is America. And we’ve basically invented the computer, and we should invent ways to protect all those that use it. – Rick Santelli
Damien Hirst I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can’t ignore it, but you’ve got to be very careful that it’s not motivating you. – Damien Hirst
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