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Acting has been really good me. You end up in some wild places, and I love adventure. Martin Compston
Love Good Me You Wild Has-Been Some Adventure Been End Up Places Really Acting
I prefer the night to the day and always stay up very late. Darkness is more peaceful, and I don't like sunshine - it hurts my eyes. When I used to live in more communal circumstances, I had to wait until everyone had gone to bed before I had the peace to write, and I still find I can get on with my writing much better at night. Martin Millar
Day Peace Eyes Writing Darkness Sunshine Better Wait Hurts Before Gone Live Late Everyone Circumstances Find Stay More Write Had Like Until Always Bed Still Up Very Get Prefer Communal Much Used Peaceful Night
If you turned into a wolf, there's no reason why you'd become evil and start eating people, is there? You'd just be a wolf, run around, try to catch rabbits or something. Martin Millar
You People Try Evil Become Wolf Just Be Run Eating Something No Reason Catch Around Just Rabbits Turned Reason Why Start
When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves. Martin Millar
Good Way New Wrote Fairies Were Werewolves York New York Really Imagining
I never sleep before 4 A.M. and usually play 'Sonic the Hedgehog' computer games before bed. I like Sonic - he reminds me of Happy, my hamster that died. I used to stay up and watch Happy. Martin Millar
Me Happy Before Stay Computer Never He Sonic Reminds Like Bed Up Died Hedgehog Used Games Play Watch Sleep
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing. Mary Garden
Me Writing Mind Few Other Keyboard Back Way Paper Pen Find Constant Minutes Finger Give Something Write Put Almost Tracks Always Yearning Up Did Stopped Hankering After Anything Things
I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly. Mary Garden
Internet Spent Slowly Deleted Computer Days Games Started
I decided to write about the myths of divorce. Mary Garden
About Write Myths Divorce Decided
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write. Mary Garden
Hopeless Critic About Write Had Know How Up Begun Who Inner
A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity. Mary Garden
Me Anger Creativity Wonderful Else More More Than Anything Stuck Emotion Had Off Than Get Anything Anything Else Moving Productivity Things Set
United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being. Matt Busby
Human Being Club Football Feel Longer Demands Institution Beyond Human Just Being United
Sometimes it does me good to look back at the days when the living wasn't so good. I remember in 1945 the dressing-rooms were gone, the park was in ruins, no stand, nothing. Matt Busby
Good Me Sometimes Remember Gone Nothing Living Back Ruins Park Days Look Does Were Stand
It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme. Matt Busby
Youth Build Young Every Dream Scheme Suppose Manager Young Players Coaching Team Why Players Started
I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living - which, of course, it isn't. Michelle Gomez
Thought Living Dressing Course Up Quite Which Much Acting Shouting Bright
The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself. I'm beginning to think of roles that I could do that I would not have allowed myself to think of before, saying: 'That's not for me, that's for the big guns.' Michelle Gomez
Saying Myself Me Big Before Beginning Older Believe Think Would Guns More Could Allowed Get Roles Starting
I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix. Michelle Gomez
People Protection Too Humour Way Laugh Weapon Able Make Always Quick Fix Getting Being Transient Used Deep
The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself. Michelle Gomez
Myself Older Believe More Get Starting
I wouldn't apply myself at school. I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living. Michelle Gomez
Myself School Thought Living Dressing Up Quite Much Acting Shouting Bright Apply
I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room. Michelle Gomez
Myself Think Around Still Front Room Actress Mum
You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion. Midge Ure
Life War Religion Morning You Wake Up Situation Think One Morning Find Civil See Entire Civil War Through Wake Up Irish Then Help Based Thing
You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard. Midge Ure
Strength Me You Man Down Keyboard Give Fingers Give Me Only Push Had Weighted Talking Got Lot Get Anything Them Who Plastic Expression Play
In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters. Midge Ure
Music You Strange People Nice Meet Music Industry Characters Some Industry Very Nice People
But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument. Midge Ure
Guitar First Favorite Instrument Foremost
At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard. Midge Ure
Good Great Beginning Bends Keyboard Keyboard Player Sections Great Fun About Give Small Could Computer Write Had Feel Mess Discovered Very Being Them Realized Certain Fun Thing Things Player Album Playing
I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive? Morag Joss
Life People Events Hide Think Too Frail Spirits Throws How Survive Just Where Them Who
'The Night Following' is very interior; the events are, to a large degree, mental events. Morag Joss
Interior Events Degree Following Mental Very Large Night
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